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