Weekly Roundup 03/20/26 (Vanity Fair fiasco, SEC token taxonomy, tokenized deposits) (EP.709)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: What happened with the disastrous Vanity Fair photoshoot Kraken postpones their IPO The SEC releases long-awaited guidance distinguishing securities from commodities A compromise may be developing over stablecoin yield The SEC drops their case against Nader Al-Naji Phantom gets a […]
Weekly Roundup 03/13/26 (SEC vs CFTC detente, prediction market surveillance, equitizing tokens) (EP.708)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Are we in an oil crisis and energy shock Binance is suing the WSJ for defamation NASDAQ and Kraken partner to bring stocks on chain The SEC and CFTC issue an MOU Prediction markets need surveillance Across is considering converting […]
Weekly Roundup 03/26/26 (Trump supports stablecoin yield, Kraken’s master account, death prediction markets) (EP.707)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: What Dario Amodei and SBF have in common Trump wades in to the market structure debate and asks the banks to come to the table Why stablecoins are not like banks Kraken Financial gets a skinny Fed master account Visa […]
Alex Wilson (Cyclops) on Crypto and Stablecoin Payment Solutions (EP.706)
Alex Wilson, Co-Founder and CEO of Cyclops, joins the show. In this episode: Alex’s background running The Giving Block and the company’s acquisition by Shift4 Difficulty in enabling stablecoin solutions when utilizing existing providers while inside of Shift4 Backgrounds of the founding team at Cyclops Regulatory strategy for Cyclops Products: Pay with Crypto (POS, E-Com), […]
Dana Syracuse and Josh Boehm (Paul Hastings) on the regulatory picture post-Genius (EP.705)
Dana Syracuse and Josh Boehm of Paul Hastings join the show. In this episode we discuss: The OCC Charter process how digital asset companies are pursuing the federal path The aftermath of the Genius Act passage and the rulemaking process for this law Considerations for Federal vs. State charter pathways The market structure bill Learn […]
Weekly Roundup 02/27/26 (Insider Predicting, OCC implements GENIUS, ZachXTB fingers Axiom, Jane St vs Terra) (EP.704)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: Kalshi has detected and banned two accounts for insider trading Is Polymarket going to have to add KYC? Is there a tradeoff between informational efficiency and market fairness The OCC de facto bans stablecoin yield in its rulemaking around GENIUS […]
Weekly Roundup 02/20/26 (CFTC claims Prediction Markets, rogue AI agents, ETH’s existential crisis) (EP.703)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: Crypto VC funds have some dry powder CFTC chair Mike Selig asserts jurisdiction over prediction markets relative to the States Is Kalshi more reliable than interest rate futures? The CLARITY Act inches closer to passing Shake up at Gemini OpenClaw […]
Raj Parekh (Monad Foundation) on Stablecoins and The Next Era of Fintech (EP.702)
Wyatt sits down with Raj Parekh, Head of Stablecoins and Payments at Monad. In this episode: Will enterprises build out their own stablecoin solutions? Will card payments continue to grow, or be challenged by other forms of payments? What is the role of governments in driving whether stablecoin adoption will continue, accelerate, or decelerate? How […]
Weekly Roundup 02/13/26 (SBF wants a retrial, taking stock of Web3, Clarity deadlocked) (EP.701)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: Matt reflects on the Patriots season We review the Superbowl Ads Looking forward to the OpenAI wearable Is “something big happening” in AI? Does crypto accelerate the rise of malicious AI? Are all communications networks going to break down in […]
Bhavin Vaid (Birch Hill) on Better Markets for Tokenized Assets (EP.700)
Wyatt sits down with Bhavin, co-founder of Birch Hill to chat about the tokenized asset and DeFi market broadly. In this episode: Who is assessing whether cryptoassets are safe in DeFi today? Who is assessing risk and ensuring assets are solvent and not fraudulent? How have these standards been set and how are they evolving? […]