Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:

• Why is Boston such a good sports city?
• Price inflation in dinosaur skeletons
• Cryptopunks IP is sold
• Machinsky is sentenced
• Nakamoto Holdings launches
• Meta wants to add stablecoins to its platforms
• Exchanges are honeypots for KYC data
• Coinbase suffers a data breach
• The GENIUS act is going to a vote next week
• GENIUS act new provisions
• More Movement shenanigans
• Thailand is launching a $150m crypto token

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Tuongvy Le and Austin Campbell published a paper, "Crypto and The Evolution of Capital Markets", which dissects the current market structure for securities trading and settlement and discusses how blockchain networks can improve this architecture.

Wyatt sits down with Alex Cutler, founder of Aerodrome for another episode in our stablefi series. In this episode: 

• DEX trading advantages
• Building on-chain FX
• DeFi as a backbone

Wyatt sits down with TN, cofounder of Pendle. Covered in this episode: 

• How Pendle works
• The evolution from alt yield to stable yield
• DeFi's future core assets

Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:

• We have a new Pope
• The etymology of ampersand
• The GENIUS act collapses spectacularly
• Coinbase consummates its acquisition of Deribit
• Did World Liberty Financial’s USD1 torpedo the GENIUS act?
• Did “pro crypto” democrats snake on the industry
• Scott Bessent thinks stablecoins could reach $2T
• The OCC says banks can provide crypto custody and execution
• Stripe is launching stablecoin financial accounts
• The SEC explores a sandbox for tokenized securities
• Tariff the L2s

Adam Healy, co-founder of Station 70 and Josh Schwartz, co-founder of Fordefi join the show. In this episode we discuss:

• The collaboration between Station 70 and Fordefi on failover MPC wallets. Announcement here.
• The state of the wallet category
• Best practices for blockchain cybersecurity
• The future of bank custody for digital assets
• Station 70’s Bunker product
• Station 70 and Fordefi are holding a joint webinar to showcase this product collaboration. You can register here.

Learn more about Station 70

Learn more about Fordefi

Wyatt sits down with David Taylor of Etherfuse. In this episode: 

• MXN stablecoins and other currencies
• Shaping regulatory frameworks
• Who wins out: innovators vs financial incumbents

Wyatt sits down with Justin Garland and Hannah JoJo of Asymmetry Finance. In this episode, we cover: 

• The evolution of yield in DeFi
• Primitives users want
• Crypto risk assessment

Learn more about Asymmetry

Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Will stablecoins disrupt credit cards?
• The US Treasury Advisory Committee drops a report on stablecoins
• Mastercard and Visa launch stablecoin integrations
• Movement labs has more scandals
• Are quantum timelines accelerating?
• The real risk of quantum to Bitcoin
• Could a quantum break fix Bitcoin’s security budget?
• Are any Bitcoin purists left?
• Circle turns down Ripple’s acquisition offer
• Machinsky is facing a 20-year sentence
• Arizona passes an SBR bill 
• Cambridge releases a new report on bitcoin mining
• Bitcoiners are fighting about OP_RETURN again 
• What is Bittensor 

Content mentioned:

• US Treasury, Report on Digital Money
• Coindesk, Inside Movement’s Token-Dump Scandal: Secret Contracts, Shadow Advisers and Hidden Middlemen
• Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Digital Mining Industry Report: Global Operations, Sentiment, and Energy Use  

Wyatt sits down with Kedian Sun, the founder of Level Money. In this episode: 

• Stablecoin usage in DeFi today
• Fiat-backed stablecoins vs other "stable" assets
• Ethereum vs other blockchains for stablecoins

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Is Bitcoin decoupling?
• The Fed rescinds anti-crypto letters from 2022 and 2023
• Upexi raises $100m PIPE to invest in Solana
• Cantor, Tether, Softbank and Bitfinex inject $3.6b into 21 Capital, a Bitcoin acquisition vehicle
• Bitcoin ETFs versus bitcoin acquisition companies
• Trump is hosting a dinner for $TRUMP holders
• Charles Schwab wants to launch crypto trading
• Citi thinks stablecoins could reach $3.7T in supply by 2030