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

• Quantum risk again
• Are banks filled with spooks?
• The trouble with Taproot addresses
• Microstrategy's dollar reserve
• Kalshi is going on chain
• Prediction market predicaments
• Are insiders monetizing Google search information on Polymarket?
• Are prediction markets insider trading machines by definition?
• DAT activist fights
• Vanguard adds Bitcoin ETFs
• House Financial Services Committee releases their final report on OCP2.0
• What's going on with leverage in crypto?
• Are AI agents going to start stealing crypto?
• Is Eliezer Yudkowski to be trusted?
• AI is going to usher in the golden age of fraud

Stepan, founder of Squads, sits down with Wyatt on today's episode. In this discussion:

• Squads' evolution from a DeFi-facing product to servicing a broader range of companies' asset treasury needs.
• What are the pain points of local small-medium businesses?
• What is driving the gradual global movement from local currencies into USD stablecoins?
• The appetite for safe yield across user types.
• Other traditional digital banking players and how they are evolving with technology.
• How the stablecoin trend impacts governments.
• What happens to local banks?

Matt and Nic record a special Thanksgiving episode of OTB. In this episode:

• What's the deal with deep fried turkeys?
• Polymarket gets CTFC approval
• Klarna is launching a stablecoin on Tempo
• Upbit is hacked
• Berachain drama
• Tether gets a downgrade from S&P
• Robinhood is spinning up their own prediction market with Susquehanna
• Are Visa and Mastercard moving fast enough?
• Who are we thankful for?

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

• Is Quantum FUD causing Bitcoin to sell off?
• Ray Dalio is worry about Quantum
• Scott Aaronson is worried about quantum computing
• Vitalik is worried about quantum
• Quantum upgrade scenarios
• Are we still suffering from the flash crash?
• The DATs are selling
• DAT spot arbitrage
• Will the US government end up with the Satoshi coins
• Should the government bail out AI?
• Will NFTs come back?
• IBIT is Harvard's largest 13F position
• David Frum on stablecoins
• Will stablecoins require a bailout?

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

• The Senate Ag Cmte publishes a Market Structure draft
• Paul Atkins' token taxonomy speech
• Fed Governor Stephen Miran gives a major stablecoin speech
• Grayscale files their S-1
• Coinbase announces a tokensale platform
• Coinbase is leaving Delaware
• The Coinbase BVNK deal falls through
• Visa Direct adds stablecoin support
• The Czech republic buys Bitcoin
• DATs are struggling
• CBDC holdouts
• Jack Dorsey bends the knee on stablecoins

Content mentioned:

• Stephen Miran, A Global Stablecoin Glut: Implications for Monetary Policy

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

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