Unchained
Podrobnosti kanala
Unchained
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how cry...
Nedavne epizode
1188 epizod
Why Kalshi's John Wang Says Perps Are 'the Most Pure Trading Instrument'
Kalshi just brought crypto perps to the US, targeting a $90 trillion offshore market. Its Head of Crypto, John Wang, explains the bet, the risks, and...
Why Fable's Shutdown Is a Warning for Every AI Lab: Uneasy Money
The government export-controlled Anthropic's best model. Kain, Luca, and Taylor debate whether Dario talked his way into it and what the shutdown mean...
Why Pandl Calls Gold and Bitcoin Buys Here
Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale Investments, argues that speculative retail flows, not geopolitical fundamentals, drove the recent gold and...
Why AI Censorship and Reg NMS Repeal Matter for Crypto Markets: DEX in the City
The federal government pulled Anthropic's Fable 5 offline with no public process — and Jessi Brooks makes the case it's a crypto chokepoint story, not...
The Chopping Block: SpaceX IPO Mania, Fable 5 Export Controls & The AI Privacy Fight
The crew breaks down the SpaceX IPO's crypto-like low float dynamics and Hyperliquid's price prediction, debates accredited investor laws and failed t...
Unchained Celebrates 10 Years! Laura and Haseeb Cover Highs, Lows and New Directions
For the tenth anniversary of Unchained, Laura reflects on the SBF question she never asked, the Charles Hoskinson beef, and why she may be done with s...
Why Sam Enzer Says the Fable 5 Ban Should Worry Crypto
The US government issued a Friday-night export control directive against Anthropic's Fable 5, citing a jailbreak that could expose advanced cyber capa...
Why the AI Business Model Is Cracking and How Crypto Could Help Fix It
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXand the AI IPO cycle face a structural problem: a cheap, capable open source exit is already drawing enterprise users away be...
Claude Found a 4-Year Zcash Bug. Now It Won't Audit DeFi: Uneasy Money
Claude Fable 5 refuses security work, Kain Warwick pulls $5,000 of compute from a $200 plan, and Humanity Protocol loses its bridge, token, and treasu...
The Chopping Block: Zcash Infinite Mint Bug + AI Hackers vs Formal Verification + NEAR's Agent Vision
Mert and Illia autopsy a brutal weekend in crypto: Saylor's $3M test sale that taught him there's no sell button, the Zcash bug Claude found that coul...
How Claude Found Zcash's Counterfeiting Bug
For three years, a counterfeiting bug sat live inside Zcash's shielded pool, and no one noticed. Then Taylor Hornby pointed a custom Claude Opus 4.8 a...
Why Saylor's 'Inoculate' Comment May Be a Signal He'll Sell More Bitcoin
About 80% of STRC holders are retail investors. Glenn Cameron walks through the prospectus, how Saylor's public claims differ from the reality, and wh...
Why Mike Dudas Has Zero Exposure to ETH, but Is Bullish on Hyperliquid
Mike Dudas holds zero ETH and sees Hyperliquid as crypto's Tether moment. He also has a clear framework for what makes a token worth buying.
What Two DOJ Cases Reveal About the Legal Risks of Prediction Markets: Bits + Bips
Steve Sosnick on the ratchet effect in equities, the AI bandwidth parallel, Kevin Warsh’s impossible first week, and why crypto is the unsexy trade ri...
The Chopping Block: Ethereum's Inflection Point w/ Joe Lubin on DATs, CROPS, AI-Driven Exploits, Quantum Threats, and CFTC's Perps
Joe Lubin makes the bull case for Ethereum amid a sea of bearishness. The panel dissects Saylor selling Bitcoin for the first time in four years, the...
Is Polymarket's Oracle Problem Getting Out of Hand? - Uneasy Money
Circle froze $12M in a DeFi pool on a Friday court order, trapping users who had nothing to do with the dispute. . Polymarket couldn't resolve a Strat...
CFTC Approves True Perps and Agentic Finance Gets Real: DEX in the City
The CFTC reclassified perps as futures. Katherine and Jessi parse what the ruling actually permits and what it means for Hyperliquid. Plus: if your AI...
Why MSTR Should Have Sold $2 Billion Instead of $2 Million of Bitcoin
Jeff Dorman on why Strategy's four stakeholder classes are all losing, and why Saylor should have sold $2B of Bitcoin at once instead of $2.5M.
...
Bits + Bips: How the Dimon vs. Armstrong Clash Reveals Crypto at Peak Political Power
Strategy sold BTC. Can its preferred dividend stack survive without Bitcoin growing at least 11.5% year? Plus, they cover Jamie Dimon calling Brian Ar...
Is 'All of DeFi Unsafe'? What You Need to Know About Holding Assets Onchain
A co-founder of OpenZeppelin said he’s urging friends to exit blue chip DeFi. Isaac Patka and Mike Silagadze explain what he got right, what he got wr...
Bitcoin Stalls, Stocks Soar: The Disconnect That Defines This Cycle
Steve Sosnick on the ratchet effect in equities, the AI bandwidth parallel, Kevin Warsh’s impossible first week, and why crypto is the unsexy trade ri...
The Chopping Block: Ethereum's Identity Crisis, Apostates Speak Out, and Is ETH the Microsoft of Crypto?
Ethereum's midlife crisis hits the podcast as ex-Bankless and ConsenSys insiders unpack ETH's talent exodus, identity spiral, "Microsoft" future, EF s...
Uneasy Money: Illia Polosukhin on Why Onchain Commerce Needs Confidentiality
Illia Polosukhin, founder of NEAR and co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need,' on why confidentiality will let crypto become daily commerce — plus, s...
Why Fintechs May Finally Beat Banks at Their Own Game: DEX in the City
Banks are about to lose two of their biggest advantages: custody and payments. A new White House EO opening Fed master accounts to fintechs could be t...
Is the Ethereum Foundation Too Out of Touch to Save ETH?
Vitalik finally said ETH the asset matters. Zak Cole’s reaction: ‘Should have said that five years ago.’ What broken cryptoeconomics mean for Ethereum...
Why the SEC Paused on Its Innovation Exemption for Tokenization: Bits + Bips
Citadel and SIFMA lobbied to slow tokenized equity rules. Arjun Sethi calls it 'corporate plumbing.' Chris Perkins calls it a bond future moment.
The Bond Market Is the Boss Now: Bits + Bips
Kevin Warsh wants a smaller Fed balance sheet and fewer dot plots. Noelle Acheson says the bond market won't let him have either. Here's what she expe...
Why Pre-IPO Perps Like SpaceX on Hyperliquid Are Seeing an Upswing
Pre-IPO trading is hot ahead of three big IPOs. Perp volume on Hyperliquid went from $3M to $44M in three months, and SpaceX perps is just the beginni...
The Chopping Block: The CLARITY Act, Hyperliquid vs CME, and the Prediction Market Supreme Court Showdown
Rebecca from Jito Labs joins Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun for a regulation deep-dive covering the CLARITY Act's stablecoin yield compromise and presidential...
Ethereum Foundation Staff Are Leaving. What Does It Mean for ETH? - Uneasy Money
Top Ethereum Foundation staff are leaving. Why? Also, Trade.xyz launched a synthetic pre-IPO SpaceX perp on Hyperliquid that further shows RWAs moving...
Why the Consensus After-Party Set Crypto Back: DEX in the City
KK, Jessi, and Vy Le call out the silence from CoinDesk and industry organizations after the Consensus after-party was held at E11even. Plus: Clarity...
Can Hyperliquid Come Onshore Without Killing What Makes It Special?
CME and ICE want regulators to rein in Hyperliquid, which delivers 24/7 derivatives markets that incumbents can't match. Can it be brought onshore?
In an AI Agent World, Do Money Markets Win Over Stablecoins? - Bits + Bips
USDC became Hyperliquid's stablecoin infrastructure, and the 30-year broke 5% for the first time since 2008. Austin, Ram, Chris, and Gordon Liao of Ci...
How Hyperliquid Benefits From Its New Deal With Coinbase Over USDC
Coinbase just became the official USDC treasury deployer on Hyperliquid. Alex Weseley of Artemis explains how this boosts Hyperliquid’s annual revenue...
Bits + Bips: The Interview — The $16 Trillion Repo Market Is TradFi’s Central Nervous System. Its Finally Coming Onchain
The repo market is $16 trillion globally and most people have never heard of it — until the plumbing breaks. Craig Burchell of FalconX and Matteo Pand...
Uneasy Money: Why the Broken Pre-IPO Secondary Markets Won't Be Fixed Anytime Soon
Anthropic is voiding secondary market trades. Who gets hurt — WhatsApp scammers, Forge buyers, or the founders? Plus: why continuous synthetic pricing...
Why Arthur Hayes Thinks the AI Bubble Bursting Could Spark a Crypto Bull Market
Arthur Hayes sees one force driving markets right now: governments printing money to finance AI and war. He explains why that ends with Bitcoin much h...
DEX in the City: Will the CLARITY Act Pass? Three Crypto Lawyers Give Their Odds
As a new CLARITY Act draft dropped, KK, Vy, and guest Josh Riezman of GSR give their passage odds and explain the one developer protection provision t...
Bits + Bips: Why the AI Rally Keeps Growing — and Why Circle Launched Arc
Ram says the entire market is now one giant AI trade. Chris argues the boom is backed by real fundamentals. Austin asks: is AI creating value for the...
Coinbase's Chief Policy Officer on Why He Believes the Clarity Act Will Pass
Coinbase's chief policy officer explains why the bank lobby failed to kill stablecoin rewards — and what 'workable compromise' actually means for cryp...