The Decrypting Crypto Podcast

In this week's episode of Off Chain, we discuss the following stories:

• Coinbase announces L2 chain, Base.
• Voyager Clients Vote 97% in Favor of $1B Restructuring Plan
• Yuga Labs announces a 300-piece generative art collection on Bitcoin (Ordinals)
• IMF: Banning Crypto 'Should Not Be Taken Off The Table'
• Nishad Singh, FTX’s Director of Engineering, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government by violating campaign finance laws.
• No, Visa isn’t slowing down plans for crypto products.

In this week's episode of Off Chain, we cover the following stories:

• OpenSea drops fees and reduces creator royalties (temporarily)
• Rep. Tom Emmer Says Fed Must Not Create Digital Currency 'Surveillance State'
• Solana Spaces shuts down NYC and Miami retail stores after just one year
• Yuga Labs accused of IP theft for trademarking BAYC wolf skull logo

In this week's episode of Off Chain, we cover the following stories:

• Kraken settles with SEC and shuts down staking service, plus pays $30m fine
• Norwegian Authorities Recoup $5.9M From Axie Infinity Ronin Exploit
• Paxos ordered to stop issuing new BUSD stablecoins
• Who guaranteed Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bond?

We speak with Karel Vuong, COO and cofounder of Treasure, the #1 marketplace for gaming and NFTs on Arbitrum.

There's been a lot of excitement around Arbitrum in general, and many interesting new projects are choosing to deploy there. Karel has a unique insight into the growing gaming and NFT ecosystem that's developed there.

In this week's episode of Off Chain, we discuss the following:

• The UK release more information on their plans for a digital Pound CBDC.
• Robinhood Wants to Buy Its Shares Back from Sam Bankman-Fried
• Arbitrum announces the launch of “Stylus”, it’s next-gen programming environment
• Signature Bank Lawsuit Alleges It 'Substantially Facilitated' FTX Fraud
• Binance Will Temporarily Suspend US Dollar Bank Transfers

Ordinals, an innovative and divisive new project has brought NFTs to Bitcoin.

Coined as “Digital Artifacts” by Ordinals founder, Casey Rodarmor, the NFTs have been the topic of much debate. On one side, there’s the argument that Bitcoin should be exclusively used for financial transactions, with anything outside of this being a deviation from its mission. On the other side, Ordinals is paving the way for new use cases on Bitcoin that can both drive additional revenue for miners and increased interest from end users.

Whatever your stance, it’s clear that Ordinals has brought renewed interest in the Bitcoin blockchain. And with some of these early NFTs being sold for over 1 bitcoin (~$23,000) it’s been capturing the imagination of speculators.

In this episode, we share a full overview of how the technology works, why it's important, and how you can start exploring it yourself, featuring commentary from a few great minds building in the Bitcoin NFT space.

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we discuss:

• Bitcoin NFTs
• Elon is making a push toward enabling crypto payments via Twitter
• Solana shared details on the Solana dApp Store
• Liquid Staking on Ethereum continues to grow

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we discuss:

• Binance admits it commingled customer funds with token reserves
• BlockFi accidentally revealed a $1.2B exposure to FTX & Alameda Research
• Celsius, the bankrupt crypto lender, might be launching a token
• FTX Creditors Include Apple, Netflix and Coinbase, Court Documents Reveal
• Mango Labs Sues Avi Eisenberg Over Mango Markets Exploit
• An update on Portugal

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we discuss:

• Liquid Staking Derivative Tokens (why they’re pumping and what you need to know)
• A history of the Winklevoss Twins & Gemini
• The 3AC crew are launching a new startup called GTX and they’re trying to raise $25m

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we discuss:

• Gemini, DCG, and the web of lies…
• FTX Restructuring Team Has Clawed Back $5B in Lost Assets
• Binance sees $12B withdrawn in 60 days
• Coinbase lays off another 950 people (20%) in their 2nd round of layoffs
• NFTs have been on a tear since the start of the year
• Shanghai Ethereum Upgrade set for March