Wyatt sits down with Omid Malekan, a Professor at Columbia Business School, author of several books, and "Explainer-in-Chief" of blockchain technology. In this episode, Wyatt and Omid discuss:

• Why do stablecoins carry a persisent sense of being "dangerous" or "ungovernable?
• Are stablecoins truly private money? How do we define private money?
• Who owns our current banking and payment systems?
• Why do banks vocally oppose stablecoins?
• Who will own and control digital money networks?
• Are blockchains the right medium for digital finance over the long term?
• Is digital trust a problem?

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

• FIFA's World Cup ticketing scandal
• Andrew Yang is now a crypto and telecoms entrepreneur
• Are Strategy's woes responsible for the Bitcoin pullback?
• Will Saylor defend STRC or MSTR?
• What are Saylor's options here?
• Polymarket has another market resolution SNAFU
• How UMA could be used to exploit Polymarket
• BitMine considers a perpetual preferred security
• Google's quantum circuit is optimized by hobbyists
• Galaxy launches OTC trading for prediction markets
• Treasury sanctions Iran's largest digital asset exchanges
• Andrew Left of Citron research is convicted of securities fraud

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

• The CEO of Lead bank says debanking was made up
• Which aspects of debanking were real?
• The SEC scraps its 50-year-old gag rule
• The WSJ gets free banking history wrong in their attack on stablecoins
• What does history tell us about decentralized monetary issuance
• Why stablecoins aren't vulnerable to the same issues as free banks
• SoFi launches SoFiUSD and mixes a stablecoin with a tokenized deposit
• Sentiment is bottoming in Ethereum
• David Hoffman sells his ETH
• Are stablecoins parasitic to L1s
• Can L1s accrue value sustainably?
• The DATs are troubled
• Is AGI here already?
• AI cost discipline

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Nic on Substack, Stablecoins are private money. There's nothing wrong with that

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

• Are AI datacenters better or worse for the environment than Bitcoin miners?
• AI is not responsible for your power bills
• Why AI could actually drive down residential power prices
• Is AI less popular than crypto ever was?
• The negative societal effects of tech companies staying private for longer
• We analyze the SpaceX S1
• OpenAI solved one of the Erdos problems
• The US government is taking equity stakes in quantum computers
• Jane Street is still dealing with the Terra fallout
• Prime Trust is trying to claw back assets from Swan
• The SEC has questions about tokenized equities

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Nic on Substack, AI is not hiking your electricity bill - yet

Matt and Nic are aback with another week of news and deals, today joined by Gus Coldebella to cover the CLARITY Act. In this episode:

• The Clarity Act advances resoundingly from committee
• Sen. Warren doesn't like the Clarity Act
• Will there be an ethics provision inserted into Clarity?
• The next fight in DC
• What's up with Nantucket real estate?
• Nantucket's ponzinomics
• Nantucket is the birthplace of venture capital
• Circle is issuing a token
• Cprkrn recovers 5 BTC with the help of Claude

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

• Will Hantavirus become another global pandemic?
• Kraken buys Reap for $600m
• Bullish buys Equiniti for $4.2b
• Reflections on 10 years of attending Consensus
• Is it acceptable to wear a backpack with a suit
• a16z crypto announces a $2.2b fundraise
• Coinbase is laying off 14% of the firm
• Will AI lead to massive job losses?
• Is VC immune from AI job displacement
• I bipartisan compromise is finally reached on Clarity
• How the AI water use debate is just like Bitcoin
• The AI lobby is learning from Fairshake
• The SEC delays prediction market ETFs

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

• DeFi had its worth month of hacks ever
• How are people falling for the fake Zoom link hack
• The KelpDAO Aave bailout is happening
• Is Bitcoin's security degrading because miners are pivoting to AI?
• Litecoin suffers a 51% attack
• Is Bitcoin PoW at risk?
• Computershare partners with Securitize
• Meta will offer creator payouts in stablecoins via Stripe
• Q-day prize controversy
• Why quantum canaries might not provide much of a warning
• Paul Tudor Jones is spooked by quantum
• Some evidence for insider information in political prediction markets

Pluto is a veteran of DeFi and cross chain systems, with prior stints at Thorchain and Airswap, now building Harbor, a native asset DEX. In this episode, we talk about the KelpDAO exploit and how DeFi can regain people's trust. Nic sits down with him to discuss:

• What exactly happened with the KelpDAO/ Aave hack?
• Will new AI models make hackers more proficient?
• Is advanced AI a defensive or offensive technology for smart contracts?
• Why protocol exposures are often not on chain
• Why DeFi might want to segregate execution from settlement
• Is it possible to have instant settlement and proactive monitoring
• Do we have anything to learn from DeFi
• What could Aave have done different?
• Where did LayerZero go wrong?
• Can DeFi work if there are occasional freezes and seizures?
• Pluto's reflections on Thorchain
• What Thorchain did right
• Arbitrum's questionable precedent
• What Pluto is building with Harbor
• Where does DeFi go from here?

Learn more about Harbor and follow Pluto on X

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals:

• The Finding Satoshi documentary has a new guess
• Was it Hal or Len?
• Could Satoshi have been a team?
• Why Stylometry might not reveal Satoshi
• Why the cypherpunks were interested in resurrection
• What happened with KelpDAO?
• Is DeFi cooked?
• Is Arbitrum decentralized?
• The Paris temperature market was manipulated
• Coinbase releases their highly-anticipated quantum risk report
• Performance tradeoffs for post-quantum signature schemes
• SBF was a good investor
• The Justin Sun WLFI saga continues
• Did an Indian tanker fall victim to a crypto scam in the Strait of Hormuz?

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Finding Satoshi Documentary
• Fidelity Digital Assets, Getting Off Zero: Evaluating Bitcoin in 2026
• Coinbase, Quantum report

Brandon Arvanaghi, the co-founder and CEO of Meow, joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

• The rise of agentic payments and the convergence of LLMs and financial services.
• Meow's approach to banking the agentic economy.
• How financial services firms and banks will need to evolve in order to service AI agents.
• Meow's product roadmap.

Meow recently made history as the first fintech to enable AI agents to open business bank accounts and virtual cards. Meow has been building the banking and treasury infrastructure for crypto-native and VC-backed companies for several years now. This includes USDC/USDT rails, stablecoin card programs, treasury management, and FX. To learn more about Meow visit meow.com