Unchained
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how crypto assets and blockchains will change the way we earn, spend and invest our money. Tune in to find out how Web 3.0, the decentralized web, will revolutionize our world.
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Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI. How Does It ...
As Bitcoin mining margins tighten, miners are repurposing their massive data centers for AI and high-performance computing. But how much is substance and how much hype?
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MegaETH Just Had Its Public Sale. Can It Succee...
MegaETH’s oversubscribed token sale just wrapped. Its founders explain their plans to build the first real-time blockchain and why they skipped an airdrop.
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The Chopping Block: Code, Chaos & Consequences ...
The Chopping Block breaks down DeFi’s Black Friday carnage — Balancer v2 hacked, chains frozen, Stream Finance vaporized — and why even “safe” yield isn’t safe at all.
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Will Perps Eat All of Finance? Ex-FTX.US CEO Br...
Perpetuals revolutionized crypto trading. Now ex-FTX.US President Brett Harrison wants to bring them to Wall Street.
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Why the Crypto Markets Seem Down Bad as Bitcoin...
Retail’s out, smart money’s watching. Is this the bottom or the blastoff?
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Bits + Bips: Reasons to Be Optimistic After Bit...
What if “extreme fear” is actually the start of something new?
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The Chopping Block: When Wall Street Meets DeFi...
Ostium’s Kaledora Linn joins The Chopping Block to unpack the funding chaos, design flaws, and trillion-dollar opportunity behind on-chain equity perps.
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How the Competition Will Play Out in the Great ...
As stablecoins spread across chains, exchanges, and payment apps, who will win the race for real adoption?
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Ex-Citi Chief Economist on Gold, Bitcoin and th...
Forget gold: the ex-Citi chief economist says the future lies in stablecoins, CBDCs, and tokenized assets.
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Sharplink CEO on Why ETH Will Soon See a Boom i...
The Fed’s next move, AI’s labor shock, and why banks are rushing into crypto.
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How Kraken Plans to Dominate Tokenization and P...
Arjun Sethi explains how Kraken plans to integrate regulated derivatives, open tokenization, and DeFi-native infra to serve both institutions and crypto-native users.
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Arthur Hayes and Adam Schlegel on Why Private E...
Crypto's unsexy middle market is about to get a cash injection. Arthur Hayes and Adam Schlegel discuss Maelstrom's $250M PE fund targeting companies ignored by VCs and exchanges.
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Why Bitcoin Could Hit $150,000 Soon. Plus ‘Code...
Bitcoin, gold, inflation, and the endgame for fiat — paired with a deep dive into crypto’s biggest exploits.
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How Crypto Neobanks Make It Easier to Earn Pass...
Crypto neobanks are merging cards, credit, and yield, all without giving up custody. Ready’s Itamar Lesuisse and EtherFi’s Mike Silagadze explain how this model could challenge traditional banks.
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The Chopping Block: Zcash +400%, Tempo’s $500M ...
Mert (Helius) defends Zcash’s +400% “encrypted Bitcoin” surge and clashes with Bitcoin maxis. We unpack Tempo’s $500M raise and Dankrad’s EF exit, Mert’s USD Manlet pivot (USDT vs USDC on Solana), and the AWS/Base outage—what “decentralized” should really mean.
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Could BTC Outperform Gold? Plus, Ethereum's Big...
Binance charges millions to list tokens—while gold rallies and Bitcoin waits. Who’s really overvalued?
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Aptos Is Betting Big on Transparency After Cryp...
Avery Ching says Crypto’s Black Friday revealed exchanges are black boxes, but upcoming perp dex Decibel will change that. Plus, here’s how Aptos is bringing crypto to 500M users.
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Ethereum's Layer 1 Lacks a Perp DEX. Synthetix ...
What if the next great perps exchange is on Ethereum itself?
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Binance Listing Fee Fight: What's a Fair Price ...
How one founder’s viral tweet shook the world’s biggest exchange.
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The Chopping Block: Inside the $19B+ Perp Crash...
$19B+ in liquidations, ADL chaos, and Binance’s USDe/staked pegs snapping while APIs buckled and gas hit $400—we dissect the Hyperliquid whale, delta-neutral blowups, HLP vs. LLP incentives, and ask: should perps protect vaults or winning traders?
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Bits + Bips: Crypto Had Its Reset. Will It Go t...
The crash exposed crypto’s weakest links. Now the question is: will it recover?
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Crypto's Black Friday Was Its Largest Liquidati...
After Trump posted that the U.S. would impose tariffs on China, all hell broke loose.
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The Chopping Block: Perps, Privacy & Prediction...
Polymarket scales with Wall Street’s blessing, Kalshi fires up KOLs, and BNB chain melts down as fast as it ran. We dissect Aster’s data drama, the new privacy wave lifting Zcash, and Galaxy One’s glossy yields—what’s smart strategy vs. old mistakes in new clothes?
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The Stablecoin Competition Is On. Who Will Be t...
Everyone wants to issue a stablecoin. But which ones of them will win?
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Bits + Bips: What’s Really Driving Bitcoin—and ...
Bitcoin just broke its ATH. But is the market euphoric yet? Plus: Coinbase, Robinhood, Stripe, Telegram and Binance gear up to take crypto onchain
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