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

• Tom Brady's clone dog
• We reminisce on the Nic Carter v Mike Green debate
• Is the government shutdown draining market liquidity?
• The trouble with Opendimes
• Balancer hacked
• Stream finance's xUSD collapses
• DATs are selling coins
• Why is Zcash rallying?
• Are stablecoins the lightbulb of crypto

Content mentioned:

• JW Verret, Comment Letter to Treasury GENIUS ANPR

Keone Hon, founder of the Monad Foundation joins the show. In this episode:

• From the point of view of Keone's trading background, what is the promise of blockchains?
• Reimagining financial systems with blockchains in 2025
• Why build Monad, and for anyone using a chain, why use Monad?
• How the importance of decentralization and chain efficiency becomes underscored during fragile market periods
• Auto-Deleveraging (ADL): What it is and why it is important.
• Where is there economic efficiency to be created?
• How has Keone gone about building a team to tackle this challenge?
• What would make Monad "successful" in 2-3 years?

Wyatt sits down with Giovanni Vignone, the founder of Octane Security, a crypto security platform focused on vetting application code pre-deployment. In this episode we discuss:

• What poses the greatest threat to crypto right now?
• How are hackers evolving?
• What are the important categories of crypto-facing cybersecurity?
• How much should startup teams be spending on security?
• How should teams think about counterparty risk?
• What do you wish early stage teams knew?
• Where is there room for improved security practices across the industry?

Matt and Nic are back for more news and deals. In this episode:

• Mastercard buys Zerohash for around $2b
• Fiserv has a catastrophic day
• Bitwise launches a Solana staking ETF
• Is there another regional banking crisis?
• EthZilla sold some ETH to buy back shares
• Will there be activists with the DATs?
• Are prediction markets structurally doomed?
• Sen Tillis introduces the Ensuring Fair Access to Banking act
• Could you go back and time and trade effectively?
• Bessent's great peso trade
• What's going to happen with Venezuela?
• We review the Iran-Contra scandal

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Sen Tillis, Fair Access to Banking press release

Geetha Panchapakesan, the founder and CEO of Tesser, joins the show. In this episode:

• Geetha's background in payments and how she arrived in stablecoins
• Major shifts across payments over Geetha's career
• Building a one-stop shop solution for financial institutions, PSPs and MSBs
• Where FIs are today as it relates to engaging to stablecoins
• Regulatory tailwinds post-GENIUS

See more at tesser.xyz

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

• Old fashioned crime is back
• Quantum risk to Bitcoin
• More outcry in Washington over the Democratic edits to market structure
• CZ gets a presidential pardon
• Federal Reserve announces a payments charter

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

• We dissect the market structure behind the flash crash last week
• What happened with Binance and Ethena?
• Palmer Luckey's de novo bank Erebor gets an OCC charter
• Paxos' fat finger
• The US government has seized $15b in funds tied to pig butchering scams

Wyatt sits down with Pbj, the founder of Perpl, a prominent perpetuals exchange on the imminently launching Monad blockchain. In this episode:

• How large are perp exchanges in the crypto market?
• Why perps are attractive to crypto users and traders
• Hyperliquid's success
• What assets would people trade on Perpl vs Hyperliquid?
• What makes Monad unique
• Perps for other asset classes?
• Reasons to be excited

Dave Balter, the co-founder and CEO of Flipside Crypto joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

• How Flipside has shifted its product to fully harness the power of LLMs for analyzing public blockchain networks.
• Building a product organization in the age of A.I.
• Perspectives on the evolving landscape of layer one and layer two blockchains.
• How the role of a data analyst will evolve in the coming years.
• Where Flipside is focusing its efforts within the blockchain data/analytics segment.

To learn more about Flipside visit flipsidecrypto.xyz and follow the company on X.

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

• Will stablecoins drive deposit flight from the banks?
• Is FDIC insurance obsolete?
• Can CBDCs provide real privacy?
• ICE invests in Polymarket
• North Dakota is looking to issue their own "rough rider" stablecoin, joining Wyoming
• Luxembourg buys bitcoin out of their sovereign wealth fund
• Is the quantum bubble creating risks for Bitcoin?
• The "Salomon brothers" OP_RETURN dusting attack on old Bitcoins
• Reg NMS for blockchains?
• Katie Porter has a new drama
• Congress is still working on the market structure bill
• Shutdown update

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Nic on Substack, Yes, we really do want to trust crypto interests with the future of money
• Galaxy Research, The Great Bitcoin Dusting: A 'Salomon Brothers' Client Tries to Claim Dormant Wallets