Transcript Ep. 1240: Is Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Coin a Scam? He Says the Wallets Prove It Isn’t

Hunter Biden walks through the $LAPTOP launch, when thin liquidity sent the token to a $317 billion market cap in a minute, and why he says it isn't a scam.

Transcript Ep. 1237: How Bitget Is Chasing $388 Million in Stolen Funds After a Zero-Day Hack

Bitget lost $388 million — and days later, CEO Gracy Chen says scammers posing as a major investment team targeted her.

Transcript Ep. 1235: Why the Crypto Market Cap Could Reach $50 Trillion This Cycle

Ran Neuner argues crypto has finally found product-market fit, and a BlackRock report on AI agents and blockchain rails convinced him the thesis may be much bigger than he thought.

Transcript Ep. 1233: How Zcash and NEAR Are Driving This Crypto Bull Run

Zcash and NEAR are both ripping this week, and Illia Polosukhin and Mert Mumtaz say privacy is the reason why. Is this how the “Bitcoin DeFi” vision comes true?

Transcript Ep. 1231: Crypto’s Clarity Act Collapses. Two Days Later, the SEC Introduces Its Innovation Exemption

Days after Clarity failed, the SEC granted a major exemption for tokenized stocks. The Digital Chamber’s Cody Carbone explains whether agencies can replace the law.

Transcript Ep. 1227: Guy Young on Why Ethena Launched a Neobank on Top of Its Stablecoin

Ethena's Guy Young explains why the company built a neobank that pays 6% in yield, 5% cash back, and never tells users they're holding self-custodial stablecoins instead of dollars.

Transcript Ep. 1225: Should Stock Tokens Be Limited to KYC’d Users? Or Be Tradeable by Anyone?

The SEC's next tokenization rule could force platforms to get issuer sign-off for stock tokens first. Securitize’s Brett Redfearn lays out what's actually at stake for Wall Street.

Transcript Ep. 1222: How GenLayer Is Building a Court System for Disputes Between AI Agents

Albert Castellana and Arthur Hayes walk through how GenLayer resolves an AI agent's dispute in minutes, for cents, without a single human judge involved.

Transcript Ep. 1221: Why the Question Over How to Regulate Perps Has Turned Into a Fight

The CME is suing its own regulator over how perps get classified, and the ruling decides who in the US can trade them. Three lawyers make the case for futures over swaps.

Transcript Ep. 1218: How Cory Klippsten Would Decide How to Secure Bitcoin Post-Coldcard

Bitcoin rallied 23% after Bessent’s debt-buyback comments and settled near $80K. Swan’s Cory Klippsten weighs in on what ETF inflows and onchain exchange moves really mean.

Transcript Ep. 1212: One Type of Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Most Popular. Why Is Crypto Trying Out Three?

Transcript Ep. 1216: How Tokenized Stocks Could Undercut Interactive Brokers’ 77% Profit Margin

Coinbase just launched fully backed tokenized stocks on Base. Dromos Labs’ Alex Cutler says they’ll chip away at Interactive Brokers "77% profit margin."

Transcript Ep. 1210: Arthur Hayes on Why AI Agents Will Want to Transact in Units of Compute

Arthur Hayes unveils Flop, a new protocol for AI compute, and makes the case for why Bitcoin is entering a fresh liquidity-driven leg up.

Transcript Ep. 1209: EIP-8363: Should ETH Be Sound Money or a Productive Asset?

Ethereum wants to slash staking yields toward zero. Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki, DV Labs’ Oisín Kyne, and Ethereum-France’s Jérôme de Tychey debate whether that breaks DeFi.

Transcript Ep. 1206: I Went Undercover to Interview a North Korean Crypto Hacker

Under a fake name and a fake Zoom account, Laura Shin interviewed one of North Korea's state-sponsored crypto developers.

Transcript Ep. 1200: Sam MacPherson on Why Spark Benefited So Much From the KelpDAO Hack

Spark avoided the DeFi hack that hit almost everyone else in April. Cofounder Sam MacPherson lays out why, and where he thinks AI fits into DeFi security.

Transcript Ep. 1199: Could Some Vaults Trigger Securities Law? Yes, but It’s Case by Case

Onchain vaults now hold $67B. Veda's CEO maps out how they work, and why the SEC just hinted some could be securities.

Transcript Ep. 1194: Should Tokenized Stock Only Come From Issuers? Yes, Says Carlos Domingo

Wall Street's transfer agents want issuers, not outside platforms, to control tokenized stock. Securitize's CEO says the alternative invites insider trading.

Transcript Ep. 1193: Zcash, Ethereum, Aztec, Canton and More: Which Chain Will Win the Privacy Race?

Privacy is having a moment in crypto. As competition heats up, the pitfalls of the technology around the quantum threat, regulatory risk and more make the trajectory hard to predict.

Transcript 1187: Kristin Smith on Why the Clarity Act Comes Down to a Memecoin

Kristin Smith walks through the vote math, the ethics fight, and what happens to crypto capital if the Clarity Act stalls before the midterms.

Transcript 1186: How Jesse Pollak Is Mapping Out Base’s Next Chapter After the App Pivot

Jesse Pollak owns the Base App's social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain's rise, and explains Brian Armstrong's memecoin moment.

Transcript 1180: How Lyn Alden Will Take on Bitcoin DATs and Private Equity With Orange Juice

Lyn Alden raised $40M to launch Orange Juice, a holding company that buys cash-flowing businesses and layers Bitcoin on top, not another pure-play treasury bet.

Transcript 1178: Why Robinhood Chain Saw Memecoins Take Off Before Real World Assets

Two weeks after launch, 85% of Robinhood Chain’s trading is memecoins and just 1% is RWAs. Johann Kerbrat says that doesn’t change the strategy.

Transcript 1176: Crypto Has Seen Drama Over ENS, BonkDAO and VVV. What Does DeFi’s Future Look Like?

Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS's treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice's VVV token.

Transcript 1172: How Lighter Powers Robinhood Perps With USDG as the Quote Asset

Robinhood Chain perps now run on Lighter. Vlad Novakovski maps the revenue split, the USDG collateral risk, and the race for a US perps license.