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On The Brink with Castle Island


Jan 31, 2025

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

  • Should we revisit Basel rules on Bitcoin? 
  • Jay Powell evolves on banks serving crypto 
  • Are banks going to offer crypto custody post SAB121? 
  • Gensler joins MIT Sloan
  • Should crypto firms boycott MIT? 
  • The Senate will hold a hearing on debanking next week 
  • Choke Point 2.0 is getting caught up in conservative debanking 
  • Where are we on DeSci? 
  • Is tokenization finally going to happen? 
  • X is adding payments to the platform with Visa 
  • Truth Social is launching Truth.Fi
  • Christine Lagarde says the ECB will not buy Bitcoin 
  • Is the Czech Republic buying bitcoin? 
  • Kraken turns back on staking
  • Apollo is launching a tokenized credit fund on Ethereum and Solana
  • Fairshake raises another $116m for the midterms 
  • SBF is asking Trump for a pardon
  • Elliott says crypto is in a bubble

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