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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD
The final Fed meeting of 2025 delivered a surprise rate cut, but the real story is how the market is reacting. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and...
The Return of the ICO | Ryan & David
ICOs are suddenly back, but this time the projects are real, the mechanisms are better, and retail isn’t shut out. Ryan and David break down why MegaE...
Inside Gary Gensler’s SEC: A Conversation with Former Crypto Policy Advisor Corey Frayer
What was really happening inside the SEC during the Gensler years?
Today, we sat down with Corey Frayer, former senior crypto policy advi...
Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks | Lincoln, Shea, Michael, & Luca
At our Bankless Summit in Buenos Aires, four standout talks captured the frontier of crypto’s next chapter. Lincoln Murr lays out why x402 is emerging...
ROLLUP: Buy Signal? | Fusaka Launch | Polymarket Mainstream | Trump’s Fed Chair | SEC Crypto Shift
Bitcoin hit a rare signal this week, dropping to its cheapest level relative to gold in nearly 15 years. Is that a buy signal or something deeper in t...
Ethereum’s Next Decade | Tomasz K. Stańczak, Ansgar Dietrichs, Dankrad Feist, & Danny Ryan
This episode showcases four of the most important talks from our Bankless Summit event in Buenos Aires for Devconnect, each capturing how Ethereum is...
Why Prices Are Crashing & What's Next—How Mike Nadeau Called the Cycle
Michael Nadeau called the top before the 10/10 crash. In this episode, he sits down with Ryan to explain why. They break down the onchain data that fl...
The Private World Computer | Aztec Co-Founders Zac Williamson & Joe Andrews
If crypto wins without privacy, did we actually win?
In this episode, Ryan sits down with Aztec co-founders Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews to un...
The Holy Grail of Crypto Privacy: Encrypted Ethereum, FHE & Living Forever | Rand Hindi, Zama Co-Founder
Ethereum is transparent by design, and that’s a problem if you don’t want your entire financial life on display.
Rand Hindi, co-founder...
ROLLUP: Ethereum’s Big Week | Supercycle Debate | Monad Mainnet | Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem
Happy Thanksgiving! Ethereum is heading into one of its biggest upgrades of the year. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and Anthony Sassano break dow...
Do We Need Another L1? - Inside Monad’s Parallel EVM with Co-Founder Keone Hon
Monad just launched Mainnet!
That’s why Ryan sits down with Monad co-founder Keone Hon today.
We ask the blunt question: do...
The Real Crypto Cycle: What Happens When Global Liquidity Peaks | Michael Howell
Global liquidity veteran Michael Howell joins to map out the “master variable” driving asset prices: a 65-month global liquidity and debt refinancing...
Is It All Over? What The Markets Are Saying For 2026
We analyze the crypto market's turbulence as Bitcoin falls below $90k, signaling potential bear market conditions. Also, it’s DevConnect! We discuss i...
Defensive Investing for an AI Bubble | Ruchir Sharma's Hedge Rules
America isn’t just leading the AI race; it’s increasingly built on it. Investor–author Ruchir Sharma joins Bankless to unpack why U.S. growth, stock g...
Bryan Johnson: Don’t Die, Beating Entropy, AI Alignment & The Two-Species Future
Bryan Johnson lays out “Don’t Die,” a moral framework that puts existence first and turns longevity into a shared fight against entropy.
...
ROLLUP: Market Uncertainty | Trump’s Bullish Plan? | Coinbase ICOs Return | Uniswap Fee Switch On | JPM Base Coin | Crypto Privacy Season?
Market uncertainty? On this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and guest co-host Tom Schmidt dig into a jittery crypto market, Trump’s new economic ideas aime...
Ethereum Beast Mode - Scaling L1 to 10k and Beyond | Justin Drake
Ethereum hasn’t reached full speed yet. Now it might. Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation outlines Lean Ethereum, a plan to optimise the stack so...
Inside BlackRock’s Crypto Strategy: Tokenization, Stablecoins & The Next Trillion | Robbie Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets
BlackRock’s Head of Crypto Robbie Mitchnick joins Ryan to unpack how institutions are actually allocating (and why correlation to “digital gold” matte...
ROLLUP: Bull Market Over? | BTC 50W Breakdown | Balancer Hack | Stream Finance Collapse | Brian Armstrong’s Prediction Market Drama
Is the crypto bull market really over, or just pausing while AI takes the spotlight? On this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and guest co-host Haseeb break...
The Stablecoin Chain Wars: Codex’s Bet on On-Chain FX | Cofounder Haonan Li
Payment chains are heating up. Not every “stablecoin chain” is playing the same game.
Codex cofounder and CEO Haonan Li joins David to map the r...
x402: The Key to Internet Money, Micropayments & The AI Agent Economy | Sam Ragsdale
Micropayments were always meant to be part of the internet, but the technology never existed to make them work.
Until now. David sits do...
Land: The $180 Trillion Asset That Runs the World | Mike Bird, The Economist
Land isn’t just dirt under buildings—it’s the world’s oldest, strangest asset, worth an estimated $180T, quietly steering credit cycles, politics, and...
“The Debasement Trade” - Luke Gromen on Gold, Bitcoin & The 100 Year Reset
Luke Gromen makes the case that “debasement” isn’t a trade, it’s the new regime.
We unpack why assets look strong in dollars yet stagnat...
ROLLUP: Markets Spooked? | MegaETH & Monad Mania | New CFTC Chair | Base & Polymarket Tokens? | Circle Arc Backlash
Markets got the treat they were waiting for with a Fed rate cut and pause on quantitative tightening, but prices still fell. Why? This week, Ryan and...
How Crypto Neobanks Work: Frax, Cards, and Visa’s Role | Sam Kazemian
Neobanks might be the quiet coordination hack that makes Visa optional. David sits down with Frax’s Sam Kazemian to map the new payment stack: why car...
Why Pro Athletes Are Betting on Bitcoin, Crypto & Prediction Markets | Tristan Thompson & Paul Grewal
NBA Star Tristan Thompson and Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal break down why pro athletes are moving into Bitcoin, crypto, and onchain prediction markets.
ROLLUP: Downtober Drags | Tempo Poaches Dankrad | Coinbase Buys Echo | Gold Surge! | Fed Access
Downtober drags on… but not all is bearish. On this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and David break down why sentiment feels cold despite strong BTC, and t...
State Of Crypto 2025 | a16z Crypto — Eddy Lazzarin & Daren Matsuoka
a16z crypto’s CTO Eddy Lazzarin and partner Daren Matsuoka return for our annual State of Crypto to map where 2025 really is on the curve: a price–inn...
Why This Crypto Cycle is Over | Michael Nadeau's DeFi Report #7
Is the crypto cycle already over, or is this just a reset before one last push? Michael Nadeau from The DeFi Report joins Ryan to break down why he we...
How Futarchy Ends the Rug Pull Era | Felipe Montealegre & Proph3t
Futarchy flips governance on its head—decisions aren’t voted on, they’re traded on.
In this conversation with Felip...
ROLLUP: $19B Flash Crash | Binance Fee Leak | China L2 on ETH | $14B BTC Reserve
Markets just saw a $19B wipeout in a single day. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, we break down the Friday Flash Crash, what really caused it, and whethe...
Is Lighter Ethereum's L2 Perp DEX? | Founder Vlad Novakovski
A $19B liquidation wave hit crypto 10 days after Lighter’s public mainnet—so we asked founder/CEO Vladimir Novakovski why they built a ZK L2 Perp DEX...
Exposing Binance's Listing Fees | CJ Hetherington
Binance listing fees, finally out in the open. CJ Hetherington, Founder of Limitless, published the offer he received after no NDA. 8% of total token...
Tom Lee & Arthur Hayes: How Crypto Flips Wall Street
Tom Lee and Arthur Hayes map how crypto is flipping Wall Street: BTC at fresh highs, ETH’s comeback, and a surge of institutional capital, tokenizatio...
ROLLUP: Gold & BTC ATH | AI Bubble or Debasement Trade? | BNB Surge | $2B Polymarket Deal
Gold shatters $4,000, Bitcoin quietly hits new all-time highs, and Wall Street just made its biggest bet yet on prediction markets. In this week’s Wee...
The Bull Case For Prediction Markets | Ryan & David
In this episode of Bankless, Ryan and David dive into prediction markets and their place in today’s financial landscape. They unpack how peer-to-peer...
Why China Builds Faster Than America & The Rest of the World | Dan Wang
Why does China build so much faster—and what does that reveal about two very different ways of running a society?
Ryan and David sit dow...
LIMITLESS: We Interviewed The Team Behind ChatGPT's #1 Feature
OpenAI’s personalization leads, Christina Kaplan and Samir Ahmed map the shift from an “assistant with a notebook” to Pulse—the part of ChatGPT that q...
The Art of Spending Money: How to Get Rich and STAY Rich | Morgan Housel
How do you spend money in ways that actually make life better?
Morgan Housel, author of the new book The Art of Spending Money, ex...
ROLLUP: Uptober Rally | Tom Lee $1B ETH Buy | Vanguard Flips to Crypto | Stripe Stablecoin Play
In this week’s Weekly Rollup, Uptober kicks off with Bitcoin and Ethereum surging toward all-time highs as Tom Lee drops another $1B into ETH and Vang...