A look at Forward Industries' strategy leveraging Solana's ecosystem with Multicoin Capital Co-Founder & Managing Partner Forward Industries Chairman Kyle Samani.

Speaking with CoinDesk from Solana Breakpoint, Multicoin Capital Co-Founder & Managing Partner Forward Industries Chairman Kyle Samani discusses the biggest news from the event, including major financial firms launching tokenized products on the network. He explains how Forward Industries is actively leveraging Solana's thriving DeFi ecosystem to generate yield—a strategy fundamentally different from bitcoin treasury models, and reveals his prediction for the inevitable consolidation of digital asset treasury companies.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Marissa Trew.

Ryan Gentry, CEO of Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp, discusses his $220M IPO, the "aerospace mafia" thesis, and why Bitcoin lending is the next big sector for public markets.

Ryan Gentry, CEO of Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp (BIXI), joins us to talk about taking a Bitcoin company public via SPAC. We dive into his journey from aerospace engineering to Lightning Labs, and why so many engineers flock to Bitcoin. Ryan breaks down the current state of Bitcoin infrastructure, the massive opportunity in Bitcoin lending, and how Lightning Network integrates with new side systems. We also discuss why the "burden of proof" has shifted to the no-coiners in traditional finance.

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Notes:

* IPO oversubscribed, upsized to $220 million 

* BTC Lending very attractive

* Square used by 28% of US merchants

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:31 Ryan intro

07:12 Aerospace Bitcoin Mafia

09:29 What is Bitcoin Acquisition Infrastructure Corp?

13:06 Target company count?

14:10 SPAC vs Index investing

17:28 Areas of industry focus?

21:25 Bitcoin's evolution as asset

26:33 L2s & Lightning

29:13 Side Systems

33:41 AI agents & payments

36:04 Investor technical understanding

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Privacy, internet capital markets, and quantum commuting threats to crypto with Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz.

In a conversation with CoinDesk, Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz breaks down the biggest news from Solana Breakpoint, including new perps exchanges and the influx of institutional capital from firms like J.P. Morgan and Galaxy. He argues that the choice for private transactions is essential for creating internet capital markets, likening financial privacy to voting in a democracy. Plus, he concludes with a warning about the existential threat of quantum computing to both bitcoin and the entire crypto industry.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Marissa Trew.

Finance for everyone with Solana Foundation President Lily Liu.

Solana Foundation President Lily Liu sits down with CoinDesk from Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi to discuss the future of the ecosystem. Reflecting on this year's event, she reveals why Solana's focus on shipping products and unifying liquidity is essential for building the financial infrastructure for billions of people.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Marissa Trew.

The rise of Aster and CZ's endorsement of the project with Aster CEO Leonard.

Binance Alum and Aster CEO Leonard joins CoinDesk Live from Binance Blockchain Week to discuss the project's sudden rise, which gained massive attention after a public endorsement from CZ. Plus, Leonard reveals the valuable advice he received from the Binance founder and breaks down why he believes perpetual DEXs could soon surpass centralized exchanges.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Sam Ewen.

El Salvador partners with Elon Musk's xAI to build an AI-powered education system.

El Salvador is partnering with Elon Musk’s xAI to launch the world’s first national AI-powered public education system. The government plans to deploy the Grok chatbot to over 5,000 schools for millions of students. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This week in bitcoin mining news, ERCOT sees a 266 GW of interconnection requests in 2026, IREN closed a $2.3 billion convertible note offering, and GPUs are leaving ASICs in the dust.

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor, joins us as we dive into MicroBT’s Whatsminer M70 launching into a challenging ASIC market, IREN’s $2.3 billion convertible note offering, the precarious state of hashprice, Luxor’s new GPU hardware sales business, the staggering 270% leap in ERCOT interconnection requests, and the controversial Cat bitcoin fork proposal aimed at filtering ordinals / inscriptions.

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**Notes:**

- Hash price is below $40 per second

- Three negative difficulty adjustments

- Ercot requests leaped 270% in 2025

- 73% of requests from data centers

- IREN raised $2.3B in convertible notes

- M70 efficiency: 12.5 J/TH

00:00 Start

02:35 Difficulty Report by Luxor

07:26 IREN note

10:44 M70 launch

20:02 Luxor launches GPU trading

27:12 ERCOT LL requests up 270% in 2025

34:10 Cry Corner: another filter fork proposal

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Unpacking the success of Solana Mobile's new device, Seeker, with GM Emmett Hollyer.

Joining CoinDesk Live from Solana Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi, Solana Mobile GM Emmett Hollyer discusses the phenomenal success of their new device, Seeker, revealing that over $2 billion in assets have flowed through the device's native dApps in just four months. Plus, he explains how the secure Seed Vault and the zero-fee, non-restrictive dApp Store offer a major mobile breakthrough for builders and users, driving adoption globally beyond crypto-native power users.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Marissa Trew.

Solana predictions with Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci.

Anthony Scaramucci, Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital and author of the new book Solana Rising, joins CoinDesk Live from Solana Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi to lay out his prediction for the Solana ecosystem. He explains why Solana is poised to become a core layer for global tokenization, his belief that SOL will flip ETH in market cap, and how regulatory clarity (or lack thereof) in the U.S. will affect the next cycle.

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Will the Senate make progress on market structure bill before the end of the year?

Senate Democrats have delivered their latest counteroffer for the crypto market structure bill, accepting parts of the GOP framework while pushing for stricter rules on financial stability and political conduct targeting President Trump. With a handful of days left on the 2025 Senate calendar, will there be progress made on market structure? CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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