Every week, Tony Sheng writes high-quality pieces on the most relevant and fascinating topics in crypto. In this week's podcast, Tony discusses his writing process, how he gets over writer's block, how he decides on a topic, and why he recently decided to switch to a membership model for his blog.

This week's podcast was recorded in Palm Springs, California for Crypto Springs, a ~250 attendee crypto conference. Messari's Katherine Wu was on the ground and interviewed some of the speakers and attendees (listed below) about their quick impressions of the conference and the discussions that they found interesting.

Never a dull moment in crypto. In this week's Messari podcast, we delve into two topics: 1) a look at the disclosure documents that Bitmain filed in an IPO application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and 2) a conversation with Eric Meltzer on the latest bitcoin bug, what it means, and its implications.

In this week’s podcast, we have with us Jake Chervinsky to give us a better & easier primer to understand some of the regulators in the crypto space. We cover 7 federal agencies and 2 state agencies: what the acronym stands for, what the agency does/have jurisdiction over, and how that relates to crypto.

In this week's episode, Ryan Seklis (CEO of Messari) and Qiao Wang (Head of Product, Messari) share their experiences from the previous week at EthBerlin. We talk about what the week consisted of, what they found interesting, what they found surprising, and what advice they have for the future attendees of EthGlobal events.

In this episode, Nic Carter speaks to the negligence of the coin rankings sites and why the data quality on a lot of these ranking sites cannot be trusted. Also: how the industry can do better on the data front, what metrics we should be considering, the lessons we can extrapolate to most crypto data sites, and the importance of definition standards.

This week, we go over a high-level overview of token supply—breaking it down to circulating and maximum supply-- and why it should be an important consideration when valuing token projects. We also cover market cap, and why transparency in a token’s supply schedule is important.

In this episode, Katherine explains what a Token Curated Registry is at a very high level-- what it is and how it works. Plus some news for this week: FOMO3D, China's Crypto Wechat ban, and the U.S. SEC's rejection of bitcoin ETFs.

In our first longer form audio segment, Messari's Katherine Wu delves into two topics:

1. The ongoing Ripple lawsuit and

2. The SEC Order re: Tomahawk Coin and what that means for bounty programs & airdrops.