Oct 31, 2025
Matt and Nic are back for more news and deals. In this episode:
- Mastercard buys Zerohash for around $2b
- Fiserv has a catastrophic day
- Bitwise launches a Solana staking ETF
- Is there another regional banking crisis?
- EthZilla sold some ETH to buy back shares
- Will there be activists with the DATs?
- Are prediction markets...
Oct 29, 2025
Geetha Panchapakesan, the founder and CEO of Tesser, joins the show. In this episode:
- Geetha's background in payments and how she arrived in stablecoins
- Major shifts across payments over Geetha’s career
- Building a one-stop shop solution for financial institutions, PSPs and MSBs
- Where FIs are today as it relates to...
Oct 24, 2025
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- Old fashioned crime is back
- Quantum risk to Bitcoin
- More outcry in Washington over the Democratic edits to market structure
- CZ gets a presidential pardon
- Federal Reserve announces a payments charter
Oct 17, 2025
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- We dissect the market structure behind the flash crash last week
- What happened with Binance and Ethena?
- Palmer Luckey’s de novo bank Erebor gets an OCC charter
- Paxos’ fat finger
- The US government has seized $15b in funds tied to...
Oct 14, 2025
Wyatt sits down with Pbj, the founder of Perpl, a prominent perpetuals exchange on the imminently launching Monad blockchain. In this episode:
- How large are perp exchanges in the crypto market?
- Why perps are attractive to crypto users and traders
- Hyperliquid's success
- What assets would people trade on Perpl vs...