The Breakdown

The Breakdown dives into the deepest topics in crypto, blockchain, and the macro forces shaping markets and power structures. Each episode breaks down complex ideas into clear, grounded analysis — separating signal from noise across crypto, finance, and geopolitics.

Hosted by David Canellis, The Breakdown features explainers, interviews, and conversations with the people building, regulating, and challenging the financial system.

A Blockworks podcast.

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1
2 Groups Now Control Ethereum's Future. Here's ...
34 min
2
Binance Needs A Friend in The European Union
29 min
3
How Strategy Insiders Insulated Themselves From...
21 min
4
Searching for the Ethereum Foundation's Remaini...
23 min
5
Is Strategy Really the Next Terra Luna?
27 min
6
The History of Standard Chartered Megabullish P...
18 min
7
The US Just Made the Case for Open-Source AI
21 min
8
Blockworks Acquires Messari
28 min
9
SpaceX Just Became the Most Valuable Post-IPO C...
21 min
10
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Is $13 Billion Underwater
26 min
11
Inside Pump.fun's New Bounty Platform
30 min
12
Brutal Zcash Bug Sat Hidden for 4 Years
26 min
13
Crypto Still Sees Massive Returns On Par With S...
21 min
14
Dimon & Democrats Ready for War Over CLARITY
25 min
15
When Bitcoin’s Bear Market Might End
13 min
16
A Google Engineer Made $1.2M Insider Trading on...
28 min
17
Is This $250M AI Company Fake?
34 min
18
Hyperliquid Hits ATH, XRP ETF Flows, and a $1B ...
32 min
19
OpenAI Digs A Moat, Ethereum Foundation Loses T...
35 min
20
The Messy State of Crypto Governance with Jito ...
42 min
21
The $70B AI IPO, Claude Cracks a Lost Wallet, a...
25 min
22
Bhutan Times the Top, CLARITY Hits Markup, and ...
33 min
23
Bored Apes Rally, Canton Raises at $2B and Sayl...
31 min
24
Coinbase Down Again, HIP-4 vs Polymarket, and D...
28 min
25
Coinbase's AI Layoffs, a16z's $2.2B Fund, and S...
32 min