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Apr 29, 2025

Wyatt sits down with Kedian Sun, the founder of Level Money. In this episode: 

  • Stablecoin usage in DeFi today
  • Fiat-backed stablecoins vs other "stable" assets
  • Ethereum vs other blockchains for stablecoins


Apr 25, 2025

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

  • Is Bitcoin decoupling?
  • The Fed rescinds anti-crypto letters from 2022 and 2023
  • Upexi raises $100m PIPE to invest in Solana
  • Cantor, Tether, Softbank and Bitfinex inject $3.6b into 21 Capital, a Bitcoin acquisition vehicle
  • Bitcoin ETFs versus...


Apr 18, 2025

Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:

  • We recap Nic’s article on why Signature collapsed
  • Crypto exchange OKX announced their plans to expand to the US
  • Kraken announced that US equities are now supported on the exchange
  • MANTRA, a layer 1 network focused on RWAs, saw the price of...


Apr 16, 2025

Wyatt sits down with Fred Hsu and Michael Ho of D3 to talk domain markets. In this episode: 

  • The existing domain name industry and legacy systems
  • An interoperable marketplace for domains
  • New financial promitives around domains and RWAs

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Apr 15, 2025

Yuval Rooz and Eric Saraniecki, co-founders of Digital Asset join the show. In this episode we discuss:

  • The origins of Digital Asset and the path to starting the firm.
  • Views on privacy in the context of public blockchains.
  • How enterprises and financial institutions are approaching tokenizing assets and...