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On The Brink with Castle Island

Nov 14, 2025

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

  • The Senate Ag Cmte publishes a Market Structure draft
  • Paul Atkins’ token taxonomy speech
  • Fed Governor Stephen Miran gives a major stablecoin speech
  • Grayscale files their S-1
  • Coinbase announces a tokensale platform
  • Coinbase is leaving...


Nov 7, 2025

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

  • Tom Brady’s clone dog
  • We reminisce on the Nic Carter v Mike Green debate
  • Is the government shutdown draining market liquidity?
  • The trouble with Opendimes 
  • Balancer hacked
  • Stream finance’s xUSD collapses
  • DATs are selling coins
  • Why is Zcash...


Nov 5, 2025

Keone Hon, founder of the Monad Foundation joins the show. In this episode:

  • From the point of view of Keone's trading background, what is the promise of blockchains?
  • Reimagining financial systems with blockchains in 2025
  • Why build Monad, and for anyone using a chain, why use Monad?
  • How the importance of...


Nov 3, 2025

Wyatt sits down with Giovanni Vignone, the founder of Octane Security, a crypto security platform focused on vetting application code pre-deployment. In this episode we discuss:

  • What poses the greatest threat to crypto right now?
  • How are hackers evolving?
  • What are the important categories of...


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...