Coinbase Head of Base Jesse Pollak joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss handing the Base app to Jordan Fish, widely known as Cobie, while refocusing on Base the chain, the rise of agentic finance and tokenized inference, and why prediction markets and DeFi growth matter more than social right now.

OUTLINE
00:08 - Welcome & Show Intro
01:34 - Russia's Crypto Law
02:19 - Clarity Act Stalls
03:00 - Coinbase UK Stock Trading
03:42 - Wrench Attack Surge
04:46 - Block's Bitcoin Results
05:18 - Jesse Joins: Base App Handover
09:52 - Robinhood Chain Competition
12:38 - Meme Coins & Creator Coins
14:47 - Agentic Finance & Tokenized Inference
19:52 - Prediction Markets on Base
29:45 - Coldcard Exploit & Self-Custody

Guest links:
Jesse Pollak - https://x.com/jessepollak
Coinbase - https://x.com/base

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Alpaca Co-Founder & CEO Yoshi Yokokawa joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss building the "AWS of financial infrastructure" for tokenized US equities, the explosive growth of AI agents on Alpaca's platform, and navigating the global regulatory landscape amid Wall Street's tokenization push. Bitwise Europe Senior Research Associate Luke Deans also joined Gareth for the day's Market Pulse to discuss Bitcoin's volatility expectations, key on-chain price levels to watch, and why digital assets may be well-positioned when the AI trade eventually unwinds.

OUTLINE
00:07 - Show Open & Headlines Preview
02:31 - Trump Meme Coin Scrutiny
03:07 - Cloudflare's Agentic Wallets
03:50 - BlackRock ETH ETF Reverse Split
04:25 - BitGo Moves WBTC to Chainlink
05:12 - ColdCard Exploit Fallout
07:46 - Market Pulse: Bitcoin Volatility
16:57 - AI Trade & Capital Rotation
23:12 - Alpaca's Origin & Infrastructure
33:19 - AI Agents & Agentic Trading
37:11 - Everything App & Bundling Trends
40:46 - Regulation & Growth Outlook

Guest links:
Yoshi Yokokawa - https://x.com/iyoshyoshi
Alpaca - https://x.com/AlpacaHQ
Bitwise Europe - https://x.com/Bitwise_Europe

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Casa CTO Jameson Lopp joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss how the Coldcard entropy exploit unfolded, why multi-vendor multisig is the gold standard for self-custody, and why Bitcoin self-custody is still worth pursuing despite the risks. Foundation CTO Zach Herbert also joined Gareth for the day's Market Pulse, where he discussed the role of AI in discovering the Coldcard bug and what the industry needs to do to rebuild trust in self-custody.

OUTLINE
00:06 - Welcome & Show Intro
01:47 - Block Briefing: Strategy Sells BTC
03:17 - Trump Media, SEC/CFTC Turf War & More
09:35 - Zach Herbert: Coldcard Exploit Explained
15:17 - AI's Role in Finding the Bug
20:23 - Open Source vs. Closed Source Debate
23:15 - Self-Custody Trust & Don't Trust Verify
27:13 - Hardware Wallet UX & Market Options
34:28 - Jameson Lopp: First Reports of the Hack
40:51 - AI, LLMs & the Changing Attack Landscape
46:23 - Self-Custody: Who It's Really For
55:57 - Casa's Multi-Vendor Multisig Case

Guest links:
Jameson Lopp - https://x.com/lopp
Casa - https://x.com/CasaHODL
Zach Herbert - https://x.com/zherbert
Foundation - https://x.com/FoundationHQ

Host links:
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B HODL CEO Freddie New joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the Coldcard hardware wallet exploit that drained roughly 594 Bitcoin from affected devices, the importance of entropy in seed phrase generation, and best practices for securing Bitcoin in self-custody.

OUTLINE
00:07 - Show Intro & Lineup
01:01 - Strategy's $8.2B Loss
01:50 - Coinbase Q2 Earnings
02:44 - Kalshi Legal Battle
03:19 - Circle Trust Charter
03:53 - Coldcard Exploit Headline
04:43 - Market Structure Bill
05:59 - Freddie New Joins
07:05 - Exploit Explained
14:02 - Self-Custody Best Practices
19:00 - Hardware Wallet Industry Impact
26:02 - Phishing Warning & Wrap-Up

Guest links:
Freddie New - https://x.com/freddienew
B HODL - https://x.com/bitcoinhodlco

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Bitwise Europe Head of Research Andre Dragosch joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block, where he discussed the Fed's split decision to hold rates and its implications for Bitcoin, Bitcoin's relative outperformance versus tech stocks and semiconductors, the US debt ceiling debate and long-term macro tailwinds for Bitcoin, BIP 110 replay risks and the low probability of it reaching majority, and Michael Saylor's Strategy stabilizing its dividend coverage to avert forced Bitcoin liquidation.

OUTLINE
05:02 - Show Introduction
06:41 - Fed Holds Rates
07:30 - Tether USAT on Celo
08:07 - Binance US Prediction Markets
08:44 - Ostium $24M Hack
09:22 - Aave Spring Cleaning
10:50 - ARK Trims Crypto Bets
11:43 - Market Pulse: Fed Impact
17:47 - Bitcoin Bottom Outlook
19:43 - Debt Ceiling & Macro
24:27 - BIP 110 Risk
26:29 - Strategy / Saylor Update

Guest links:

Andre Dragosch - https://x.com/Andre_Dragosch
Bitwise Europe - https://x.com/Bitwise_Europe

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1inch Co-Founder Sergej Kunz joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to announce the launch of 1inch Aqua, a unified shared liquidity protocol for DeFi, and to discuss how it addresses idle AMM liquidity, the role of AI in development and protocol security, and the future of RWA tokenization on Ethereum L2s.

OUTLINE
00:05 - Show Intro & Previews
02:06 - Morgan Stanley ETF Launch
03:05 - Durov & Telegram Charges
04:26 - DeFi Hacks Record
05:09 - CFTC Prediction Markets Battle
05:55 - Core Scientific & Galaxy AI Pivots
07:22 - Ethereum L2 TVL Decline
08:24 - 1inch Aqua Explained
11:57 - Aqua Security & Audits
19:38 - AI in Development
25:33 - RWA & Robinhood Chain
29:09 - Building on Ethereum & Future Plans

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Nansen Co-Founder & CEO Alex Svanevik joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the evolution of Nansen from on-chain analytics to agentic trading, why open source AI is the new crypto, and how on-chain transparency has helped expose bad actors like FTX and Bitcub.

OUTLINE
00:06 - Welcome & Block Briefing
01:11 - Circle's Patent Power Play
02:28 - Kraken Acquires Magic Labs
03:05 - Lido's Post-PECTRA Upgrade
03:46 - NFL vs. Prediction Markets
05:01 - Minnesota Ban Blocked
06:01 - Nansen's Evolution
10:29 - Hyperliquid Integration
15:23 - Open Source AI = New Crypto
29:09 - Nansen's Staking Business
33:50 - On-Chain Transparency & Fraud
43:14 - RWAs & Trading Everything On-Chain

Guest links:
Alex Svanevik - https://x.com/ASvanevik
Nansen - https://x.com/nansen_ai

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Bitwise Head of Onchain Research Kam Benbrik joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss Bitwise's inaugural quarterly staking report, the divergence between on-chain fundamentals and market sentiment, record ETH staking highs, and institutional staking trends across Ethereum, Solana, Hyperliquid, and Avalanche.

OUTLINE
00:08 - Welcome & Show Intro
01:12 - BitMart Shutdown
02:17 - TripleA Hack Update
03:02 - KB Kookmin Goes Onchain
03:43 - Storj Bankruptcy Filing
04:22 - Bitcoin ETF Volume Drops
04:58 - Robinhood & Crypto.com Talks
05:42 - Strategy's $525M USD Reserve
06:46 - Bitwise Staking Report
10:16 - ETH vs. Solana Staking
20:16 - Upcoming Protocol Upgrades
26:35 - Week Ahead Preview

Guest links:
Kam Benbrik - https://x.com/KamBenbrik
Bitwise - https://x.com/Bitwise

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Input Output Global Founder Charles Hoskinson joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss Cardano's decentralized governance and on-chain treasury and Midnight's privacy-first vision for a fourth-generation blockchain.

OUTLINE
00:03 - Welcome & Introduction
01:00 - Leaving X Behind
04:53 - Managing Social Media
07:00 - Cardano's Governance Model
10:33 - Decentralizing Development
18:58 - Bitcoin DeFi & Pogan
24:16 - Bitcoin's Limitations
32:29 - Quantum Threat to Bitcoin
37:53 - Midnight & Privacy Tech
49:33 - Hoskinson's Daily Focus
52:54 - Bullet Ant Ceremony
01:00:00 - Blackhawk & Simplifying Life

Guest links:
Charles Hoskinson - https://x.com/IOHK_Charles

Host links:
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Swan Bitcoin Founder & CEO Cory Klippsten joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the current state of the Bitcoin treasury company landscape, his essay 'The Battle for Monetary Independence,' and the long-term path to Bitcoin becoming a global medium of exchange.

OUTLINE
00:07 - Show Intro & Preview
02:07 - BitMEX Closing Down
03:04 - Crypto Clarity Act Update
03:49 - Bridge Hacks & Security
04:26 - Circle Expands in Korea
05:45 - Coinbase-SEC Settlement
07:00 - Polymarket Fights France
14:35 - Cory Klippsten's Bitcoin Origin
22:39 - Jack Mallers & 21 Bitcoin Co.
25:47 - Bitcoin Treasury Companies Landscape
39:09 - Battle for Monetary Independence
50:10 - Bitcoin as Future Money

Guest links:
Cory Klippsten - https://x.com/CorySwan
Swan Bitcoin - https://x.com/Swan

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