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Join Professor Chris as he leads a panel educating the audience on the news of the week in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and blockchain investing.

On the panel this week:

• Our rotating panelist for the week, Web3 and GameFi content creator Lito is back on panel!
• An award-winning author, game designer, speaker, entrepreneur and CEO of Stone Blade Entertainment, home to Ascension and Solforge Fusion, the onchain hybrid TCG, Justin Gary!

We focused on the story and web3 roots of Solforge Fusion and their SFG token in the back half of the podcast, but before then, we tackled the following news items to educate and get fantastic takes on from our panelists:

• Google's release of the Agentic Payment Platform, or AP2, with more than 60 partners and institutions based in web2 and web3. What does this mean for commerce and removing as much friction as possible for industries like GameFi?
• Basecamp from Coinbase's Layer 2 chain Base is this week, and part of the news is that they're exploring a Base network token after 2 years of not having one, and they've built an interesting two-way bridge between Base and Solana for developers to access token liquidity in both ecosystems, which Justin's team has already employed using Layer Zero's OFT tech.
• Bo Hines left his post from being President Trump's special advisor for crypto for a space in the private sector. We now know it's to lead the USA-only stablecoin for Tether, who issues USDT, the market-leading stablecoin, under the ticker USAT. It's GENIUS compliant on arrival, and I'm curious how US companies will embrace it as opposed to their own stablecoins now that GENIUS was passed and signed into law.

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Join Professor Chris as he leads a panel to help educate our guests on the news of the week in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and blockchain investing.

On the panel this week:

• Head of Developer Relations at Bittensor Subnet 8, Taoshi, Ken!
• CEO and Founder of Bittensor Subnet 65, TPN, Mikel

Before interviewing Mikel about the renewed focus on the TPN product, which is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) completely decentralized on Bittensor's architecture, we covered the news of the week:

• More publicly-traded altcoin treasury companies as Eightco forms a treasury around Sam Altman's Worldcoin (WLD), and Story Protocol's IP token gets focused on by publicly traded Heritage Distilling
• Rabby Wallet now has direct access to perps inside the wawllet
• The huge npm supply chain attack that targeted web3 and DeFi wallets
• The fight between multiple entities to take control of the USDH stablecoin ticker on Hyperliquid.

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Join Professor Chris as he welcomes another fantastic panel to talk about the news of the week in crypto, DeFi and web3. 

On panel this week:

• Head of Ecosystem from Drosera Network, 0xJirachi
• Head of Growth from Bittensor Subnet #8, THE Proprietary Trading Network, Taoshi, Luke

What we covered today:

• World Liberty Financial's (WLFI) 20% supply launch on Monday
• Chainlink and Pyth Networks now the oracle accountants of the US Government
• The rise of the prediction market as the CFTC clears Polymarket to operate in the US
• Ethena's Fee Switch proposal (Before GTA 6 and Uniswap, for shame!)
• Thoughts on the AI Space Race as Chinese President Xi Jinping preaches peace in the development of AI globally

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Join Professor Chris as he welcomes Sistla, founder of longstanding Cosmos appchain OmniFlix, Streamswap, and now the expansion of the onchain media infrastructure to the Base blockchain with the launch of Flix.fun. 

A really great conversation on why having decentralized and onchain media for creators is SO important, and we get Sistla's takes on a lot of the latest news, trends in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). 

We also covered:

• The latest news about Digital Asset Treasury companies, or DATCos, and how they're going to affect the ETH supply, the BTC supply crunch and more
• The latest article from Arthur Hayes, which paints US Treasury Secretary in an interesting light as Buffalo Bill
• MetaMask brings social logins to the game
• Google is developing their own Layer 1 blockchain. 2026 is going to be CRAZY.

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Follow along with Professor Chris as he and his panel go through the biggest news of the week in crypto, web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) to educate you on how you can apply that to your investment decisions.

Today we welcomed on panel:

• The return of world renowned DJ, currently in Paris, from our partners at Talisman Wallet, Robert is back!
• One of my fellow creators at XCohost, Lito Hilario!

We covered in the news:

• The nature of the "bleeding markets", where we're at and the overall sentiment of severe overreactions on healthy market patterns
• Going through multiple security issues with new exploits and how you can stay safe
• We then talked about the State of Wyoming's new Frontier stablecoin (FRNT), how it is being launched on Avalanche blockchain, and the great things that this experiment could solve, breaking down how it's being tackled at the state level, its backing, etc.

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Join Professor Chris as he talks about the week's news in crypto, web3 and DeFi for your investment allocations.

Today on panel:

• Chase from Neptune Finance, the premier AMM of the Injective blockchain ecosystem
• Our favorite Lord of Developer Relations for our partners at Taoshi, Ken!

Topics we covered:

• Congrats to our friends at Axal, who launched their product to the public with an amazing onboarding partner, Moonpay.
• We finally got all the details of the White House Crypto Policy report. 
• The SEC said that liquid staking activities around these activities.
• The Q2 earnings for Coinbase and Tether are big as well. 

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Join Professor Chris as he welcomes multiple voices from around web3 to talk about the week's news in DeFi, web3 and blockchain investing.

On the panel today:

• 0xJirachi, head of ecosystem at Drosera
• Chopin, co-Founder at Symphony Finance, our featured panelist

What we covered in this episode:

• Polymarket's bets on if the Fed will cut rates (>97% that's a no change)
• PayPal now has Pay With Crypto for their entire userbase now available, with 4% APY for holding PYUSD in the wallet
• We cover the jury coming to a decision on Eli Regalado rugging his church for 4M USD.

We then got introduced to one of the best AI-powered trading terminals I've ever seen with Sympson at Symphony Finance. We learn more about their journey to create Symphony and frankly, the amazing intent-based infrastructure they're using.

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Join Professor Chris as he goes through the news of the week to educate you on how to handle your portfolios. 

On panel this week:

• Robert from Talisman Wallet
• Mike from the Canadian CEX powerhouse Netcoins
• Richard, CEO and Founder of Amana Finance on Zetachain

We covered:

• Base had a New Day One where they relaunched with a new logo, typography and suite of offerings for the base chain 
• The signing of the GENIUS Act and the effect of how this will affect markets and the overall DeFi landscape
• We then learned more about Amana Finance on Zetachain and got a tour of their fantastic UX.

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Join Professor Chris, your DeFi Professor as he and his panel of the best in web3 talk about the news of the week to educate you on how it affects you and your investment portfolios. Or they talk about fun things to make you laugh.

Thanks to our panel this week:

• Luke, Growth Lead at Taoshi & Glitch Financial
• Abhishek from SpiralStake
• Eric from Axal

Topics:

• Crypto Week is the big news as the House of Representatives looks at 3 bills this week, the Clarity Act, The Anti-CBDC Act and the GENIUS Act. 
• We talked about the Pudgy Penguins mass branding across crypto all weekend which is huge for PENGU, Pudgy Penguins and their Abstract blockchain ecosystem.
• We then looked at the trend of TCs, or Treasury Companies, and how multiple publicly-traded and private companies are building digital asset warchests.
• We then talked about our featured protocol this week, Axal, with Eric leading the way on how it works.

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Join Professor Chris as he breaks down the news of the week in onchain investing and Decentralized Finance.

Seemingly all the available panelists were still recovering from ETHCC in Cannes, which is good, please get some rest. We have a packed panel booked already for next week. 

What I covered:

• The unfortunate exploit of GMX V1, GLP on Arbitrum
• Ripple and Circle apply for bank charter licenses with the OCC
• Trump's Truth Social files for a BTC-ETH ETF?
• Phantom now has perps, powered by Hyperliquid
• The pump.fun ICO happens on July 12. And no, you can't join in.

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