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- NFT Marketplace Blur Is Retiring Blur.io on Nov. 12, Keeping Its Contracts Live Onchain
- Will Stablecoin Issuers Pivot to Gold Rewardsvideo · apps · 1d ago
- Ark's Lorenzo Valente on AI Agents, Quantum, and ETHvideo · protocol · 1.2k views · 1d ago
- Tom Lee’s Bitmine Nears 5% of Ether Supply, Trims Weekly Buy to 12,532 ETH
- Ethereum Name Service Team Asks DAO to Switch On ENSv2 and Freeze New .eth Sign-Ups on v1
- TOKEN2049: Bunker Mode? feat. Balaji & Arthur Hayes Live - The Chopping Blockvideo · apps · 13k views · 4d ago
chapters (8)
- 0:00Cold open
- 0:31Live at TOKEN2049 with Balaji and Arthur Hayes
- 2:35Why Network School moved to Kazakhstan
- 6:55How to shop for a country
- 15:45OpenAI's math drop and crypto bunker mode
- 21:47What crypto does if the cryptography breaks
- 32:13Blockchains that hack themselves, and Arthur's Flop Network
- 34:28Blast, Abstract, and the L2 shutdowns
- Robinhood Explores Stock Token Tied to T. Rowe Price Actively Managed ETF
chapters (13)
- 1:57Why Justin Drake’s ‘don’t panic’ tweet has crypto eyeing its cryptography
- 6:12Taylor on the MetaMask staking incident and the 0.36 ETH that tipped it off
- 14:03Ben on why even a worst-case ECC break wouldn’t mean instant theft
- 20:04Why Ben thinks TradFi, not crypto, could be the worse place to hold money
- 25:02How AI models went from flubbing 2+2 to formalizing hard math
- 30:451inch: See how LPs can back multiple positions with one token balance at
- 31:49How the NEAR Intents hacker ended up sending the money back
- 37:07ZachXBT went undercover with a DPRK money launderer: what he found
- 51:25Why instant outrage is the tell for launderers and Sybil farmers
- 56:11From Gnosis’s 2017 ICO to Safe, the multisig securing $100B+
- 1:02:23The push for Swiss intervention at Safe and what it actually claims
- 1:08:12Ben on how regulatory fear warped DAOs and why value return matters now
- 1:17:12Blast and Abstract shut down: too many L2s, and never build a wallet
- Ethereum Researcher’s ‘Bunker Mode’ Call Sparks Debate Over Whether AI Math Threatens Crypto Keys
- Lido Contributors Unveil Lido Lend, a Morpho Blue Fork Built for Lower-Risk Lending
- Hacks, Wind Downs and the Safe Governance Debatevideo · apps · 6d ago
- Ether.fi Is Launching Its Own Stablecoin, With Ethena Running the Reserves
- Polymarket Rebuilds Its Core Smart Contracts With Protocol V2, Targets Nov. 2 Switchover
- Ethereum Client Prysm Ships 200M Gas Limit Fix Hours Before Glamsterdam Test
- Tom Lee’s Bitmine Slows Ether Buying for a Second Straight Week, Adding 15,112 ETH
- Nvidia, Tesla Shares Head for 24/7 Onchain Trading Under OKX and NYSE Owner’s Venture
- Ethereum Layer 2 Blast Is Shutting Down, Saying Costs Now Exceed What the Chain Earns
- Is Ethereum's Real Problem Debate, Not Tech? - Uneasy Moneyvideo · world · 11d ago
chapters (8)
- 0:00Kain asks why the EF keeps coming back to 2030
- 1:02Why Kain calls Vitalik's essay the most bullish Ethereum read in years
- 3:37Taylor on why Ethereum's bottleneck was never talent
- 6:06Austin on AI implementing an EIP in a weekend after 2028
- 7:26Kain on why the cost of being wrong slows ambitious teams
- 11:05Taylor's case for building and testing instead of debating theory
- 13:46Pablo asks whether Ethereum's real challenge is commercial
- 15:32Why Taylor says apps skipped Ethereum, and why Kain expects them back
- Kalshi Cooked, Bitget Hacked + Agentic Bank Runs - The Chopping Blockvideo · world · 8.3k views · 11d ago
chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:42Bitget loses $387M to North Korea
- 7:08Should chains freeze hacked funds?
- 15:35Chains as laboratories of democracy
- 21:44The hidden premium on janky chains
- 27:13Consensys hacked: is staking still risk-free?
- 30:53Pricing and hedging validator risk
- 40:24Kalshi's perps volume
- 44:17How Kalshi's rebates went awry
- 53:07Apollo's agentic bank runs
- 56:04A banking system built on consumer laziness
- 1:02:46SVB-style runs at agent speed
- Ethereum Foundation Launches Privacy Tool That Cuts the Link Between AI Prompts and Payers
- Authors Withdraw Ethereum Staking Reward Burn Plan From Hegota Upgrade, Seek Separate Process
- Base’s Cobalt Upgrade Lets Token Issuers Move Seized Balances Instead of Burning Them
- Open USD Stablecoin Goes Live as Stripe, Visa and Mastercard Open It to Businesses
- Abracadabra Moves to Shut Down MIM Stablecoin, Offering Holders Roughly 4 Cents per Token
- Aztec Revives Its Private Payments Wallet, Capping Every Transfer Below $2,500
- El Salvador Launches a $2 Remittance App That Settles in Stablecoins
- Balancer Is Shutting Down, With Payouts Estimated at About 16 Cents per BAL
- SEC Staff Narrow Token Buyback Guidance to Networks With ‘No Central Party’
- Citi to Offer Stablecoin Checkout for Corporate Clients, With Coinbase Handling the Conversion
- Bitmine’s Ether Stash Passes 6 Million Tokens as Its Weekly Buying Slows
- Bitget Reopens Bitcoin Withdrawals, Starting Phased Restart After $388 Million Hack
- Vitalik Buterin Says Hegota Will Likely Be Ethereum’s Last ‘Normal’ Fork
- SEC Staff Clear Token Buybacks on Working Networks, With a Warning for Unfinished Ones
- Payy Rules Out a Compromised Key in $1.92 Million Drain of Users’ Deposits
- Ethena Starts Backing USDe With Tokenized Stocks on Binance, Its First Equity Basis Venue
- Kelp DAO Sues LayerZero and CEO Bryan Pellegrino Over $292 Million rsETH Bridge Exploit
- CFTC Weighs Enforcement Probe Into Kalshi’s Ether Perps Over Repeating $5,500 Trades
- CFTC Sent Crypto Market Structure Rulemaking to the White House Two Days After Clarity Act Failed
- Clarity Died in the Senate. Does Crypto Even Need a Law Now?video · world · 1.4k views · 26d ago
chapters (10)
- 1:18Why the Clarity Act's cloture vote failed: 'politics beat policy'
- 2:38Scoring Trump's corruption against Nixon and Suharto fuels the ethics fight
- 6:51Election pressure: a lame duck vote and crypto PAC money's next targets
- 11:57Why Cody blames the banks' stablecoin rewards fight for killing Clarity
- 14:351inch Aqua: See how LPs back multiple positions with one token balance at
- 15:23The SEC's new innovation exemption for tokenized stock venues
- 18:28Could 2 years of SEC and CFTC rulemaking replace a crypto law?
- 23:20Why regulators are staying silent on synthetic stock tokens
- 26:46What's left to negotiate: developer liability and stablecoin yield
- 31:14Is the lame duck Clarity's last shot, or could agency rules become permanent?
- Crypto Stocks Paid for the Clarity Act’s Failure. Does Bitcoin Pay Next?
- Who Killed the Clarity Act?video · world · 26d ago
- Ondo Joins DTCC Network Handling Over 85% of US Mutual Fund Activity, a Tokenization First
chapters (5)
- 0:00Why Guy built a neobank after DeFi's TVL never beat its 2021 peak
- 5:49Why Guy doesn't see Tether-backed Plasma as a competitor
- 7:21Why 25% of Ethena's headcount now works on Ethena Pay alone
- 8:47Why crypto neobank users are worth 10 times a normal fintech user
- 10:47Why Guy says the crypto user is not that loyal at all
- A Bot Robbed the Hacker Who Drained $7.8 Million in rsETH From a Safe Wallet
- Senate Democrats Send Republicans a Clarity Act Counteroffer Hours Before Cloture Vote
- Lummis Unveils ‘Final’ Clarity Act Draft Before Tuesday’s Cloture Vote as Trump Accepts Ethics Limits
- Inside BNY Mellon's 400-Person Agentic Commerce Demo Dayvideo · world · 37d ago
- Robinhood's Stock Tokens Are Getting Weird: Uneasy Moneyvideo · apps · 39d ago
chapters (7)
- 0:00Boner Corner: A meme coin turned into a tokenized-stock pump
- 1:34Why every "BONER" buy routes through a Uniswap V4 pool
- 5:14The $1 billion call that forced Robinhood's original meme-stock halt
- 10:44Austin's shout-out to FOMO's dead-simple buy-and-sell UX
- 13:23Cash in, cash out: why FOMO skipped any-to-any swaps entirely
- 14:46Taylor on FOMO's centralized trade-offs, and why the UX still wins
- 18:58Where Kain and Austin draw the line on custody
- 'This Is a Better Version of a Stock, Period,' Says Cutlervideo · apps · 45d ago
chapters (3)
- 0:00Why Cutler says DeFi composability already beats Interactive Brokers' 77% margin
- 2:13Spot pools vs. perpetual markets: where tokenized stocks actually trade
- 2:59How Arcadia, Bitwise, and others are building on tokenized-stock composability
- How Berman Amendments Could Save Roman Storm: Uneasy Moneyvideo · world · 46d ago
chapters (9)
- 0:00Acquittal or delay: Roman Storm's retrial slides to April 2027
- 1:39The 'frying pan' theory prosecutors used for money transmission
- 3:17The Berman Amendments: why sanctions can't gag speech
- 5:30Comparing Tornado Cash to the Samurai Wallet prosecution
- 10:21Why Van Valkenburgh calls this a misallocation of resources
- 13:15Hero, not villain: the case for Roman Storm
- 13:40The chilling effect on developers, two years later
- 16:00Kain remembers meeting the Tornado Cash team pre-launch
- 20:51Closing thoughts: wishing for a better path forward
- How Tokenized Stocks Could Undercut Interactive Brokers' 77% Profit Marginvideo · apps · 1.9k views · 46d ago
chapters (6)
- 1:15How Cutler splits tokenized stocks: real backing vs synthetic wrappers
- 4:44Cutler's launch numbers: 25% of AMM volume, $80M traded, 5,000 wallets
- 13:101inch Aqua: back multiple liquidity positions with one wallet balance at
- 13:59Why composability across 9 DeFi protocols is Dromos' biggest draw
- 19:11Cutler on 24/5 oracle risk: weekend price gaps are a feature, not a bug
- 24:23Cutler on the SEC exemption bid and Armstrong's 10%-of-GDP vision
- Roman Storm's Retrial Delayed as Treasury’s Crypto Warning Loomsvideo · world · 47d ago
chapters (8)
- 1:26Bessent brands Iran sanctions 'economic D-Day', DeFi not exempt
- 11:15Van Valkenburgh explains the freeze-and-seize rules coming for stablecoins
- 15:18Bessent claims a $1B Iranian crypto rug, but the receipts don't add up
- 25:081inch Aqua: back multiple liquidity positions with one wallet balance at
- 25:50Roman Storm's retrial slips to April as an acquittal motion looms
- 38:24Why Van Valkenburgh calls Tornado Cash's developer a hero, not a villain
- 47:22SEC's 'Reg Crypto' plan opens two new paths to raise ICO-like capital
- 58:07Trump name-drops Hyperliquid, raising hard questions for the CFTC
- Can Tokenized Stocks Beat Your Broker?video · apps · 1.2k views · 47d ago
- Tornado Cash, Sanctions, and Crypto's Legal Reckoningvideo · world · 48d ago
- Is Ethereum's Issuance Proposal Already 'Dead in the Water'?video · protocol · 54d ago
- EIP-8363: Should ETH Be Sound Money or a Productive Asset?video · protocol · 55d ago