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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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The Chopping Block: The CLARITY Act Endgame with Patrick Witt + Gauntlet's $125M SBI Raise + Balaji's Malaysia Exodus
Patrick Witt, the White House's executive director for digital assets policy, calls in mid-episode to give the Chopping Block crew a live read on the...
DEX in the City: How Kalshi’s Rough Week Became a Federal Fight for Prediction Markets
The CFTC pulled a power last used in the Carter era to rescue Kalshi. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy Le on what it means — plus Japan’s crypto tax cut and D...
Why You Can't Opt Out of the AI Guardrails Race
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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 tre...
How a Surprise Clarity Act Vote Could Move Crypto Prices
If you haven't yet, be sure to subscribe to Bits + Bips on its dedicated channels. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, X, Unchained and wh...
Why Cap Cuts Its Stabledrop Rewards From $11M to $4M: Uneasy Money
Cap's founders on shrinking their Stabledrop from $11M to $4M — plus a $23M hack traced toward North Korea, a BarnBridge governance exploit, and Kain'...
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.
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DEX in the City: Why the Supreme Court's FTC Ruling Could Rewire Crypto Regulation
The Supreme Court just made it easier to fire SEC and CFTC commissioners. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy on why that could reset who controls crypto policy....
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.
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Sam Lyman Puts 70% Odds on Clarity Passing Before Recess
Austin Campbell draws a parallel between the AI data center backlash and the decades-long collapse of US nuclear power, then Sam Lyman of the Bitcoin...
Why CLOs Are Suddenly DeFi's Hottest Yield Play
Niklas Kunkel maps where the RWA market is heading next, from Centrifuge and Apollo's CLOs to Galaxy's first tokenized credit product, then turns to a...
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.
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Austin Griffith on the $1 AI Audit and the Case for Founders Over DAOs: Uneasy Money
Austin Griffith joins Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan to unpack BonkDAO's $20M governance heist, and Kain's case for giving founders more control.
The Chopping Block: Tokens vs Equity, Lighter's Robinhood Perps Deal, and Trump's $2.4B Crypto Windfall
Vladimir Novakovski of Lighter joins the Chopping Block crew to untangle one of crypto's oldest debates: what happens when tokens and equity coexist....
Why Strategy Dumped Its Biggest Bitcoin Tranche Yet
For years, Michael Saylor's Strategy was the market's most dependable Bitcoin buyer. Recently, it has done the opposite.
Strategy just so...
Strategy Sold More Bitcoin. Is This a Betrayal of the Bitcoin Ethos?
Strategy sold $260M of Bitcoin at a loss to fund dividends. Parker White of Apyx makes the case that it is smarter than it sounds.
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Ari Redbord Sits Down With the Hosts of DEX in the City
Ari Redbord sits down with Katherine, Jessi, and Vy to talk about SEC clarity, the onshore perps boom, and DeFi's opsec problem — plus why the U.S. sh...
How Ethereum Institutional Intends to Grow Ethereum's Market Share
Joseph Chalom lays out why Ethereum Institutional exists, how it differs from Etherealize, and why he thinks Michael Saylor is in a pickle.
How One ENS Vote Reignited the DAO Governance Debate: Uneasy Money
Nick Johnson's ENS vote sparked days of backlash. He and co-founder Alex Van de Sande join Uneasy Money to explain what actually happened.
Why Bitcoin's Lack of Yield Keeps Straining Its Treasury Companies
David Lawant, Head of Research at Anchorage Digital, breaks down why Bitcoin's lack of native yield puts constant pressure on treasury companies, and...
Why Authorities Can't Freeze Crypto Fast Enough: DEX in the City
Regulators try to freeze illicit stablecoins, but the money's usually gone before the freeze lands. The hosts on why crypto sanctions keep failing.
The Chopping Block: Visa, Mastercard & 140 Firms Take On Circle, Saylor’s Digital Credit Reset & the DAO Reckoning
The crew is joined by Selini Capital’s Jordi Alexander to break down Open USD, the no-fee stablecoin from a 140-firm consortium spanning Visa, Masterc...
How a Fake Podcast Invite Nearly Hacked Laura Shin
Laura Shin has reported on crypto scams since the early days and wrote one of the first stories on sim swaps. That did not stop a spear-phishing attem...
How the New Ethlabs Plans to Make Ethereum More Intentional in Designing ETH
Is it Ethereum or bust? Ansgar Dietrichs makes the case that only Ethereum can anchor the financial system, and admits ETH still lacks a clear value s...
A Perp Venue Asked Her to Trade Her Own Benchmark. She Said No
Carmen Li thought it was a joke when a perpetual futures marketplace asked her to become the market maker for her own index. It wasn't.
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Why CME Sued the CFTC Over the Kalshi Bitcoin Perp Approval
A regulated exchange suing its own regulator almost never happens. The hosts trace why CME did it, and why the CFTC may have better odds than crypto T...
How the Strategy Empire Breaks, and Whether Saylor Can Stop It
Vinny Lingham warned 18 months ago that Michael Saylor would harm Bitcoin more than FTX. Now he maps how the Strategy empire breaks and the one move t...
Ex-Ethereum Foundation Researchers Launched Their Own Lab: Uneasy Money
An anti-MEV activist spent weeks building 66 fake contracts to trap the sandwich bot jaredfromsubway.eth. Then jared's operators did the one thing nob...
The Chopping Block: Is Strategy the Luna for Suits?, ETH Labs Shakeup & CME vs Perps
The crew debates whether Saylor's STRC preferred shares are "Luna for suits," unpacks the ETH Labs spin-out and Ethereum Foundation layoffs, breaks do...
Are Perpetuals Swaps or Futures? The CME Picks a Fight
Three years ago, Chris Perkins sat across from Terry Duffy in Congress and made the case for perpetuals. Duffy pushed back — hard. Now Duffy's CME is...
How Digital Credit Assets like STRC and SATA Differ from Bitcoin or DAT Stocks
Was Michael Saylor wrong to sell Bitcoin? Matt Cole breaks from his fellow critics on Strategy, S&P's junk rating on MSTR, and whether the model is br...
Why Kalshi's John Wang Says Perps Are 'the Most Pure Trading Instrument'
Kalshi just brought crypto perps to the US, targeting a $90 trillion offshore market. Its Head of Crypto, John Wang, explains the bet, the risks, and...
Why Fable's Shutdown Is a Warning for Every AI Lab: Uneasy Money
The government export-controlled Anthropic's best model. Kain, Luca, and Taylor debate whether Dario talked his way into it and what the shutdown mean...
Why Pandl Calls Gold and Bitcoin Buys Here
Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale Investments, argues that speculative retail flows, not geopolitical fundamentals, drove the recent gold and...
Why AI Censorship and Reg NMS Repeal Matter for Crypto Markets: DEX in the City
The federal government pulled Anthropic's Fable 5 offline with no public process — and Jessi Brooks makes the case it's a crypto chokepoint story, not...
The Chopping Block: SpaceX IPO Mania, Fable 5 Export Controls & The AI Privacy Fight
The crew breaks down the SpaceX IPO's crypto-like low float dynamics and Hyperliquid's price prediction, debates accredited investor laws and failed t...
Unchained Celebrates 10 Years! Laura and Haseeb Cover Highs, Lows and New Directions
For the tenth anniversary of Unchained, Laura reflects on the SBF question she never asked, the Charles Hoskinson beef, and why she may be done with s...
Why Sam Enzer Says the Fable 5 Ban Should Worry Crypto
The US government issued a Friday-night export control directive against Anthropic's Fable 5, citing a jailbreak that could expose advanced cyber capa...
Why the AI Business Model Is Cracking and How Crypto Could Help Fix It
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXand the AI IPO cycle face a structural problem: a cheap, capable open source exit is already drawing enterprise users away be...
Claude Found a 4-Year Zcash Bug. Now It Won't Audit DeFi: Uneasy Money
Claude Fable 5 refuses security work, Kain Warwick pulls $5,000 of compute from a $200 plan, and Humanity Protocol loses its bridge, token, and treasu...