Unchained
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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...
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Inside the Coldcard Hack That Drained Over $100 Million in Bitcoin: Uneasy Money
A hardware wallet's 5-year-old randomness bug just let hackers drain over $100 million in Bitcoin. How many more waves are coming? Plus, Ethereum's fi...
The Chopping Block: ColdCard's $100M RNG Hack, AI-Powered Security & Ethereum's Staking Yield Taper
This week we dissect ColdCard's ~$100M RNG exploit that Claude Code cracked in 8 minutes, debate whether AI just killed open-source security and Bitco...
DEX in the City: How Claude's Red-Teaming Agents Escaped a Test Without Realizing It
Anthropic's AI agents escaped a hacking test and still think they're inside it. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy Le on who's liable when a model breaks free,...
Is Any Cold Wallet Safe? Inside the Coldcard Hack's Wave Three
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A firmware bug quietly i...
Should Tokenized Stock Only Come From Issuers? Yes, Says Carlos Domingo
Wall Street's transfer agents want issuers, not outside platforms, to control tokenized stock. Securitize's CEO says the alternative invites insider t...
Meta Fell 10%. Microsoft Didn't Blink.
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Meta and Microsoft repor...
Zcash, Ethereum, Aztec, Canton and More: Which Chain Will Win the Privacy Race?
Privacy is having a moment in crypto. As competition heats up, the pitfalls of the technology around the quantum threat, regulatory risk and more make...
Should Crypto Tokens Come With Investor Rights? - Uneasy Money
BitMEX shut down without an angry tweet. Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder joins Kain and Taylor on why dead tokens never get that mercy. Plus, Kyle...
Has Control Replaced Decentralization as DeFi's Legal Test? - DEX in the City
Vy Le and Jessi Brooks trace an AI agent's sandbox escape back to crypto's own fight over open code. Plus, Plume general counsel Salman Banaei on Clar...
Does Capitalism Doom Every Closed AI Model to Get Copied?
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Jensen Huang had been ru...
The Chopping Block: Wind Downs, YC's Nemil Dalal, & Will Every Failed Crypto Idea Eventually Work?
YC's Nemil Dalal joins to explain why he's never been more bullish as BitMEX winds down after 11 years, whether every failed crypto idea (TCRs, DAOs,...
Kristin Smith on Why the Clarity Act Comes Down to a Memecoin
Kristin Smith walks through the vote math, the ethics fight, and what happens to crypto capital if the Clarity Act stalls before the midterms.
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Paid Partnership: How Can DeFi Fix Its Liquidity Problem? 1inch's Aqua Offers a Solution
SPONSORED CONTENT: This video is a paid partnership with 1inch. It was produced in collaboration with 1inch and is separate from Unchained's editorial...
Bits + Bips: Why Bitcoin Has the Least to Gain From the Clarity Act
Cole Kennelly, founder and CEO of Volmex Labs, traces why BVIV and BVIV-US diverge around IBIT's regulated options market, makes the case that Ethereu...
How Jesse Pollak Is Mapping Out Base's Next Chapter After the App Pivot
Jesse Pollak owns the Base App's social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain's rise, and explains Brian Armstrong's memecoin moment.
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Cobie Taking Over Base App? He's 'the Respectable Trencher': Uneasy Money
An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to cheat its own test. Kain and Taylor break it down — plus Base’s failed social bet and the North Korean IT worke...
The Chopping Block: The CLARITY Act Endgame with Patrick Witt + Gauntlet's $125M SBI Raise + Balaji's Malaysia Exodus
Patrick Witt, the White House's executive director for digital assets policy, calls in mid-episode to give the Chopping Block crew a live read on the...
DEX in the City: How Kalshi’s Rough Week Became a Federal Fight for Prediction Markets
The CFTC pulled a power last used in the Carter era to rescue Kalshi. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy Le on what it means — plus Japan’s crypto tax cut and D...
Why You Can't Opt Out of the AI Guardrails Race
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Austin Campbell's claim...
How Lyn Alden Will Take on Bitcoin DATs and Private Equity With Orange Juice
Lyn Alden raised $40M to launch Orange Juice, a holding company that buys cash-flowing businesses and layers Bitcoin on top, not another pure-play tre...
How a Surprise Clarity Act Vote Could Move Crypto Prices
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Why Cap Cuts Its Stabledrop Rewards From $11M to $4M: Uneasy Money
Cap's founders on shrinking their Stabledrop from $11M to $4M — plus a $23M hack traced toward North Korea, a BarnBridge governance exploit, and Kain'...
Why Robinhood Chain Saw Memecoins Take Off Before Real World Assets
Two weeks after launch, 85% of Robinhood Chain's trading is memecoins and just 1% is RWAs. Johann Kerbrat says that doesn’t change the strategy.
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DEX in the City: Why the Supreme Court's FTC Ruling Could Rewire Crypto Regulation
The Supreme Court just made it easier to fire SEC and CFTC commissioners. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy on why that could reset who controls crypto policy....
Crypto Has Seen Drama Over ENS, BonkDAO and VVV. What Does DeFi's Future Look Like?
Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS's treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice's VVV token.
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Sam Lyman Puts 70% Odds on Clarity Passing Before Recess
Austin Campbell draws a parallel between the AI data center backlash and the decades-long collapse of US nuclear power, then Sam Lyman of the Bitcoin...
Why CLOs Are Suddenly DeFi's Hottest Yield Play
Niklas Kunkel maps where the RWA market is heading next, from Centrifuge and Apollo's CLOs to Galaxy's first tokenized credit product, then turns to a...
How Lighter Powers Robinhood Perps With USDG as the Quote Asset
Robinhood Chain perps now run on Lighter. Vlad Novakovski maps the revenue split, the USDG collateral risk, and the race for a US perps license.
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Austin Griffith on the $1 AI Audit and the Case for Founders Over DAOs: Uneasy Money
Austin Griffith joins Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan to unpack BonkDAO's $20M governance heist, and Kain's case for giving founders more control.
The Chopping Block: Tokens vs Equity, Lighter's Robinhood Perps Deal, and Trump's $2.4B Crypto Windfall
Vladimir Novakovski of Lighter joins the Chopping Block crew to untangle one of crypto's oldest debates: what happens when tokens and equity coexist....
Why Strategy Dumped Its Biggest Bitcoin Tranche Yet
For years, Michael Saylor's Strategy was the market's most dependable Bitcoin buyer. Recently, it has done the opposite.
Strategy just so...
Strategy Sold More Bitcoin. Is This a Betrayal of the Bitcoin Ethos?
Strategy sold $260M of Bitcoin at a loss to fund dividends. Parker White of Apyx makes the case that it is smarter than it sounds.
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Ari Redbord Sits Down With the Hosts of DEX in the City
Ari Redbord sits down with Katherine, Jessi, and Vy to talk about SEC clarity, the onshore perps boom, and DeFi's opsec problem — plus why the U.S. sh...
How Ethereum Institutional Intends to Grow Ethereum's Market Share
Joseph Chalom lays out why Ethereum Institutional exists, how it differs from Etherealize, and why he thinks Michael Saylor is in a pickle.
How One ENS Vote Reignited the DAO Governance Debate: Uneasy Money
Nick Johnson's ENS vote sparked days of backlash. He and co-founder Alex Van de Sande join Uneasy Money to explain what actually happened.
Why Bitcoin's Lack of Yield Keeps Straining Its Treasury Companies
David Lawant, Head of Research at Anchorage Digital, breaks down why Bitcoin's lack of native yield puts constant pressure on treasury companies, and...
Why Authorities Can't Freeze Crypto Fast Enough: DEX in the City
Regulators try to freeze illicit stablecoins, but the money's usually gone before the freeze lands. The hosts on why crypto sanctions keep failing.
The Chopping Block: Visa, Mastercard & 140 Firms Take On Circle, Saylor’s Digital Credit Reset & the DAO Reckoning
The crew is joined by Selini Capital’s Jordi Alexander to break down Open USD, the no-fee stablecoin from a 140-firm consortium spanning Visa, Masterc...
How a Fake Podcast Invite Nearly Hacked Laura Shin
Laura Shin has reported on crypto scams since the early days and wrote one of the first stories on sim swaps. That did not stop a spear-phishing attem...
How the New Ethlabs Plans to Make Ethereum More Intentional in Designing ETH
Is it Ethereum or bust? Ansgar Dietrichs makes the case that only Ethereum can anchor the financial system, and admits ETH still lacks a clear value s...