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ROLLUP: Markets at ATHs | Saylor’s STRC Bid | Trump DeFi Scandal | SEC Clears DeFi

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Markets are ripping back to all-time highs, but crypto still isn’t following suit. Ryan and David break down the V-shaped recovery driven by Ira...

Why Hasn't The Dollar Fallen? | Lessons from Currency Historian Barry Eichengreen

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Why has the dollar remained dominant despite rising debt, geopolitical strain, and growing challengers? Barry Eichengreen joins Bankless to trace the...

Up or Down from Here? Bears vs. Bulls

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Has crypto already bottomed, or is more pain still ahead? Mike and Ryan break down the bull and bear case in full, from Bitcoin fair value and market ...

"Fix the Money, Fix the World" — Michael Saylor's Master Plan (plus questions on Quantum and Ethereum)

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Saylor thinks Bitcoin is headed to $21 million, but the real story in this conversation is how he believes it gets there. In his first appeara...

ROLLUP: Iran Ceasefire Rally | Anthropic’s “Mythos” Model | Q-Day Divide | Stablecoin Yield Debate

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Markets are rallying on a fragile Iran ceasefire, but the real risks may be getting closer. David and Haseeb break down Anthropic’s secretive ne...

Will The Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) Rebuild $ETH Dominance? | Gnosis Martin Koppelman & Friederike Ernst

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Can Ethereum become one economic zone again? Martin Koppelmann and Friederike Ernst from Gnosis explain how real-time proving and the Ethereum Econo...

The Largest Securities Exchange in the World is Coming Onchain | Michael Blaugrund of NYSE and Carlos Domingo of Securitize

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

NYSE and Securitize are laying the rails to bring real, issuer-backed securities onchain.  Michael Blaugrund of NYSE and Carlos Domingo of Securi...

Bitcoin Has 3 Years to Survive | Nic Carter on Bitcoin’s Quantum Vulnerability

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What if Bitcoin’s biggest strength becomes its fatal weakness? Nic Carter joins Bankless to unpack why the latest quantum papers changed the threat ...

ROLLUP: Google’s Quantum Warning | Trump’s Iran Speech | Ethereum Economic Zones | Drift Hack

03 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Google just dropped a major quantum warning for crypto, claiming a breakthrough that could accelerate the timeline to breaking Bitcoin and Ethereum’...

3 Megatrends Every Investor Needs to Know: Demographics, Wealth Inequality, & the End of Labor (with Jeff Park)

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Three macro forces are converging that almost no one is pricing in correctly. Jeff Park returns to Bankless to lay out what he calls the "certain trut...

ROLLUP: The World is On the Clock | The Clarity Act | Crypto Mortgages | Bitmine Staking

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We examine the proposed Clarity Act and its impact on stablecoin yields and crypto finance. Ryan and David discuss geopolitical tensions in Iran and t...

The Economics of AGI: Why Verification Is the New Scarcity w/ Christian Catalini

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

MIT economist Christian Catalini joins Ryan and David to unpack his new paper, "Some Simple Economics of AGI," which argues that the scarce resource i...

Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

NEAR founder and Transformer co-author Illia Polosukhin joins us to break down why today’s AI agents still fall short, what’s missing to make them...

Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Quantum used to be crypto’s distant sci-fi problem. Justin Drake says it now has a clock. In this episode, we unpack what “Q-Day” actually means...

ROLLUP: Crypto Momentum | Regime Shift? | Payments War | Prediction Boom | SBF on Netflix

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan and David break down a historic week for crypto as the SEC and CFTC finally deliver long-awaited clarity, classifying major tokens and reshaping ...

Tempo Mainnet: The Race to Agentic Commerce

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tempo Mainnet is live, but this episode isn’t really about just another chain launch. It’s about a bigger claim: that AI agents are about to need ...

Trump's Grand Strategy: Iran, China & The New World Order | Kamran Bokhari

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A deep dive into Trump’s emerging grand strategy and the geopolitical logic behind the Iran conflict.  Kamran Bokhari joins Bankless to unpack ...

Ethereum Foundation's New Mandate Has The Community Divided | Bankless Takes

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Ethereum Foundation’s new mandate has reignited one of Ethereum’s oldest debates: Should it stay laser-focused on cypherpunk values, or lean...

Robinhood CEO: "Gen Z Is the Most Retirement-Savvy Generation Ever" | Vlad Tenev

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The next great battle in finance may not be over stocks, crypto, or even payments. It may be over where the $90 trillion great wealth transfer actuall...

ROLLUP: Chaotic Era | Oil, Jobs, Credit | Nasdaq x Kraken | BlackRock Staked ETH | Roman Storm Retrial

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan and David break down a week where war hit markets, and the safe-haven playbook broke down. Oil spiked, gold failed, bonds sold off, the dollar ca...

Where is ETH in the cycle? | Michael Nadeau

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum underperformed this cycle, and investors are asking the big question: did ETH just skip a cycle, or is something deeper going on? Michael Nad...

Making America the Crypto Capital of the World | New CFTC Chairman Michael Selig

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation with new CFTC Chairman Mike Selig on the policy shift behind America’s push to become the crypto capital of the world. We cover the ...

ROLLUP: Wartime Markets | Kraken Gets Fedwire | Trump vs Banks | AI vs Pentagon | NYT Says Crypto Is Dead

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan and David break down a week where war hit markets, and the safe-haven playbook broke down. Oil spiked, gold failed, bonds sold off, the dollar ca...

AI Finds 70% of Smart Contract Exploits | Alpin Yukseloglu

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI is getting dangerously good at smart contract security. Faster than crypto is ready for. Alpin Yukseloglu joins Bankless to break down EVMBench (bu...

Building a Million Dollar Zero Human Company with OpenClaw | Nat Eliason

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Nat Eliason joins to show what it looks like to build a “zero human company” with OpenClaw agents. — led by Felix, an AI CEO that ships products...

Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto still feels like a minefield for humans: Haseeb Qureshi argues that’s a clue, not a bug: blockchains and smart contracts are machine-readab...

ROLLUP: Extreme Fear | Tariff Whiplash | Citrini AI Crash | Jane Street vs Terra | Pentagon vs Anthropic

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

February ends with peak FUD. Ryan and David unpack why crypto is stuck in historic “Extreme Fear” even without a major blowup, and why markets fee...

Zero Crypto at Home: Bankless in the Age of Wrench Attacks and Phishing | Jameson Lopp and Beau

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto’s newest threat isn’t a smart contract exploit, it’s a knock at your door. In this episode, Ryan sits down with Jameson Lopp (Casa) and B...

Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum’s next big leap might not look like a single “flip the switch” moment—but it could change how the chain verifies everything. In this ...

ROLLUP: Prediction Market War | Base Leaves Optimism | Tomasz Exits EF | Clarity Act Lives | Harvard Buys ETH

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A legal war over prediction markets just went public. Ryan and David break down the CFTC’s claim of exclusive authority, the backlash from state off...

Lyn Alden: How to Survive The Gradual Print Era — Fed Chair Warsh, Gold & Bitcoin

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Lyn Alden joins us to make sense of the “everything, everywhere, all at once” macro moment. A fourth-turning-style unwind of the long-term debt c...

ROLLUP: Crypto Pain Market | Coinbase Super Bowl Rug Pull | IBIT Liquidation Cascade | Prediction Markets Explode | BlackRock x Uniswap

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto feels cooked in 2026, and the Super Bowl proves it. Ryan and David unpack Coinbase’s Backstreet Boys rug pull ad and what it reveals about cr...

What’s the Story? AI Stocks, Crypto Downturn, Metals Selloff, SaaSpocalypse | Jim Bianco

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last week felt like four different crashes happening at the same time: AI software stocks melting down, crypto capitulating, gold and silver whipping ...

Robinhood Chain Takes on NYSE/Nasdaq | Robinhood Crypto GM Johann Kerbrat

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Robinhood isn’t just adding another crypto feature—it’s assembling a new exchange stack: stock tokens, an Ethereum L2 built for real-world asset...

MegaETH Mainnet is Live! — The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

MegaETH mainnet is live, kicking off a new frontier for Ethereum scaling: ultra-low latency, massive throughput, and an execution environment built to...

Vitalik Signals the End of the Rollup-Centric Roadmap: What's Next?

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A single Vitalik tweet just snapped Ethereum’s scaling narrative into focus: the rollup-centric roadmap is over, and a new path is here. Ryan and Da...

ROLLUP: Crypto in Free Fall | Vitalik’s L2 Pivot | Warsh Fed Pick | Clarity Act Showdown

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto enters a full-blown pain market as Bitcoin, ETH, tech stocks, and even gold sell off together. Ryan and David break down why crowded trades are...

AI on Ethereum: ERC-8004, x402, OpenClaw and the Botconomy | Austin Griffith & Davide Crapis

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents aren’t “coming” to Ethereum—they’re already here, spinning up on dedicated machines, clicking through wallets, deploying contracts...

Where Do We Go From Here? | Michael Nadeau

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Nadeau went risk-off in October and has been targeting Bitcoin's fair value near $65K. In this episode, he joins Ryan to unpack what changed a...

Capitalism’s Endgame: The Last Companies That Will Ever Exist

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Capitalism may be heading toward an “event horizon,” where a handful of firms become so entrenched they’re effectively the last companies standi...

ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Markets wobble as gold and silver hit all time highs, raising the big question of what comes next for crypto. Ryan and David unpack the macro shock dr...

The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Celo is quietly powering real-world payments at global scale. In this episode, David and Ryan sit down with Marek Olszewski, CEO of cLabs, to unpack h...

Iran Unchained: How the Islamic Republic Holds Power and Why Protests Keep Returning | Sana Ebrahimi & Ameen Soleimani

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Iran is a real-world stress test of freedom: the Islamic Republic is built to outlast dissent. In this special Iran Unchained episode, David talks wit...

Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox joins Bankless to argue that privacy is back on the critical path—because AI turns chain surveillance into pattern-recogn...

ROLLUP: Trump Eyes Greenland | Davos Goes Crypto | NYSE Goes Onchain | Quantum Spooks Bitcoin | Farcaster + Lens Acquired

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Markets slide this week as Trump floats taking Greenland and tariff threats resurface, pushing investors toward gold. Ryan and David break down what D...

The Duopolies of 2026: Ethereum & Solana, Coinbase & Robinhood, Polymarket & Kalshi | Ryan, David & Arnav Pagidyala

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto in 2026 is consolidating into a handful of high-stakes rivalries:  Ethereum vs. Solana for the center of gravity, Coinbase vs. Robinhood f...

ROLLUP: Clarity Bill Stalls | Powell vs. Trump | NYC Meme Rug | Silver Explodes | X Adds Crypto

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Washington takes center stage this week as crypto collides with power, policy, and markets. Ryan and David break down the CLARITY Act fight in the Sen...

Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What if the biggest threat to your freedom isn’t a bad decision - but a scoreboard you never agreed to? Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen joins Bankless to ...

Is Canton a Real Blockchain? | Canton Founder Yuval Rooz

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Is Canton a real blockchain or a new kind of capital-markets operating system? Digital Asset co-founder Yuval Rooz explains why Canton prioritizes p...

ROLLUP: Prediction Market Bill | Solana DEX ATH | ETH Stablecoins ATH | Zcash Implodes | Vitalik “Trilemma Solved”

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prediction markets are turning into real-time intelligence, and policymakers are already reacting. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and David unpa...

How the Stablecoin Milkshake will Redollarize the World | Brent Johnson

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Johnson returns to Bankless to update the Dollar Milkshake Theory and explain why the de-dollarization narrative misses the bigger trend. He arg...

ROLLUP: Silver Parabolic | Aave Civil War | Uniswap Unifies | New CFTC Chair | Bitcoin vs. Quantum

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto is maturing while attention moves elsewhere. In this Weekly Rollup, David Hoffman and Anthony Sassano break down silver, gold, and the S&P hitt...

27 Crypto Predictions for 2026 | Mike Ippolito

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Hoffman sits down with Mike Ippolito to unpack why 2025 felt brutal despite new all-time highs and why that tension matters for 2026. They argue...

Investing Trends for 2026: DeFi, Tokenization, Capital Formation, Speculation & AI | Ben Lakoff & Arnav from Bankless Ventures

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Lakoff and Arnav Pagidyala from Bankless Ventures lay out how they’re thinking about crypto investing heading into 2026. The conversation span...

12 Big Crypto Predictions for 2026 | Ryan & David

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan and David skip a quiet holiday weekly rollup and instead break down the biggest 2026 crypto forecasts from Bitwise, Coinbase, Galaxy, Grayscale, ...

Where is Crypto Going in 2026? | Ben Cowen

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the crypto cycle already over? Ben Cowen returns to break down what a post-euphoria cycle looks like, why Bitcoin may have already topped, and how ...

Is the Crypto-Native Era Coming to an End? - Lessons from 10 Years in Crypto with Joey Krug, Founders Fund Partner

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joey Krug (Founders Fund partner, former Pantera co-CIO, and Augur co-founder) returns to unpack whether the “crypto-native era” is fading as inst...

ROLLUP: Coinbase Ships | JPMorgan Onchain | Solana Firedancer | Aave Civil War | DTCC Tokenizes

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto prices are down, but the most important players are still building. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and David break down Coinbase’s push...

Why Gen Z Will Turn Everything Into a Market | Threadguy

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trading is no longer just a financial activity; it has become a spectator sport. In this episode, Threadguy explains how Gen Z’s internet-native flu...

The DeFi Report Podcast | Was the Fed Rate Cut a False Signal for Crypto?

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Fed cut rates and announced $40B/month in T bill purchases. Is that the signal to buy back into crypto? Mike says no. In this episode, we explain ...

10 Crypto Predictions for 2026: $1M BTC, Wall Street Onchain & ETF Takeover | Matt Hougan & Ryan Rasmussen from Bitwise

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan and Ryan Rasmussen return with 10 big predictions for 2026. From the case for $1M BTC (and why the classic four-year cycle ma...

Is Privacy A Winnable Battle? | Andy Yen, Founder of Proton

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is becoming the most powerful surveillance machine ever built and most people are feeding it their deepest secrets without realizing who can read t...

ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The final Fed meeting of 2025 delivered a surprise rate cut, but the real story is how the market is reacting. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan an...

The Return of the ICO | Ryan & David

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ICOs are suddenly back, but this time the projects are real, the mechanisms are better, and retail isn’t shut out. Ryan and David break down why Meg...

Inside Gary Gensler’s SEC: A Conversation with Former Crypto Policy Advisor Corey Frayer

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What was really happening inside the SEC during the Gensler years? Today, we sat down with Corey Frayer, former senior crypto policy advisor to SEC C...

Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks | Lincoln, Shea, Michael, & Luca

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At our Bankless Summit in Buenos Aires, four standout talks captured the frontier of crypto’s next chapter. Lincoln Murr lays out why x402 is emergi...

ROLLUP: Buy Signal? | Fusaka Launch | Polymarket Mainstream | Trump’s Fed Chair | SEC Crypto Shift

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin hit a rare signal this week, dropping to its cheapest level relative to gold in nearly 15 years. Is that a buy signal or something deeper in t...

Ethereum’s Next Decade | Tomasz K. Stańczak, Ansgar Dietrichs, Dankrad Feist, & Danny Ryan

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode showcases four of the most important talks from our Bankless Summit event in Buenos Aires for Devconnect, each capturing how Ethereum is ...

Why Prices Are Crashing & What's Next—How Mike Nadeau Called the Cycle

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Nadeau called the top before the 10/10 crash. In this episode, he sits down with Ryan to explain why. They break down the onchain data that fl...

The Private World Computer | Aztec Co-Founders Zac Williamson & Joe Andrews

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If crypto wins without privacy, did we actually win? In this episode, Ryan sits down with Aztec co-founders Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews to unpack t...

The Holy Grail of Crypto Privacy: Encrypted Ethereum, FHE & Living Forever | Rand Hindi, Zama Co-Founder

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum is transparent by design, and that’s a problem if you don’t want your entire financial life on display. Rand Hindi, co-founder of Zama,...

ROLLUP: Ethereum’s Big Week | Supercycle Debate | Monad Mainnet | Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Thanksgiving! Ethereum is heading into one of its biggest upgrades of the year. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and Anthony Sassano break d...

Do We Need Another L1? - Inside Monad’s Parallel EVM with Co-Founder Keone Hon

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Monad just launched Mainnet! That’s why Ryan sits down with Monad co-founder Keone Hon today. We ask the blunt question: do we really need another...

The Real Crypto Cycle: What Happens When Global Liquidity Peaks | Michael Howell

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Global liquidity veteran Michael Howell joins to map out the “master variable” driving asset prices: a 65-month global liquidity and debt refinanc...

Is It All Over? What The Markets Are Saying For 2026

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We analyze the crypto market's turbulence as Bitcoin falls below $90k, signaling potential bear market conditions. Also, it’s DevConnect! We discuss...

Defensive Investing for an AI Bubble | Ruchir Sharma's Hedge Rules

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

America isn’t just leading the AI race; it’s increasingly built on it. Investor–author Ruchir Sharma joins Bankless to unpack why U.S. growth, s...

Bryan Johnson: Don’t Die, Beating Entropy, AI Alignment & The Two-Species Future

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Johnson lays out “Don’t Die,” a moral framework that puts existence first and turns longevity into a shared fight against entropy. We pr...

ROLLUP: Market Uncertainty | Trump’s Bullish Plan? | Coinbase ICOs Return | Uniswap Fee Switch On | JPM Base Coin | Crypto Privacy Season?

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Market uncertainty? On this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and guest co-host Tom Schmidt dig into a jittery crypto market, Trump’s new economic ideas ...

Ethereum Beast Mode - Scaling L1 to 10k and Beyond | Justin Drake

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum hasn’t reached full speed yet. Now it might. Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation outlines Lean Ethereum, a plan to optimise the stack s...

Inside BlackRock’s Crypto Strategy: Tokenization, Stablecoins & The Next Trillion | Robbie Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

BlackRock’s Head of Crypto Robbie Mitchnick joins Ryan to unpack how institutions are actually allocating (and why correlation to “digital gold”...

ROLLUP: Bull Market Over? | BTC 50W Breakdown | Balancer Hack | Stream Finance Collapse | Brian Armstrong’s Prediction Market Drama

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the crypto bull market really over, or just pausing while AI takes the spotlight? On this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and guest co-host Haseeb bre...

The Stablecoin Chain Wars: Codex’s Bet on On-Chain FX | Cofounder Haonan Li

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Payment chains are heating up. Not every “stablecoin chain” is playing the same game. Codex cofounder and CEO Haonan Li joins David to map the rea...

x402: The Key to Internet Money, Micropayments & The AI Agent Economy | Sam Ragsdale

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Micropayments were always meant to be part of the internet, but the technology never existed to make them work. Until now. David sits down with Sam ...

Land: The $180 Trillion Asset That Runs the World | Mike Bird, The Economist

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Land isn’t just dirt under buildings—it’s the world’s oldest, strangest asset, worth an estimated $180T, quietly steering credit cycles, polit...

“The Debasement Trade” - Luke Gromen on Gold, Bitcoin & The 100 Year Reset

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Gromen makes the case that “debasement” isn’t a trade, it’s the new regime. We unpack why assets look strong in dollars yet stagnate in...

ROLLUP: Markets Spooked? | MegaETH & Monad Mania | New CFTC Chair | Base & Polymarket Tokens? | Circle Arc Backlash

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Markets got the treat they were waiting for with a Fed rate cut and pause on quantitative tightening, but prices still fell. Why? This week, Ryan and ...

How Crypto Neobanks Work: Frax, Cards, and Visa’s Role | Sam Kazemian

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Neobanks might be the quiet coordination hack that makes Visa optional. David sits down with Frax’s Sam Kazemian to map the new payment stack: why c...

Why Pro Athletes Are Betting on Bitcoin, Crypto & Prediction Markets | Tristan Thompson & Paul Grewal

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NBA Star Tristan Thompson and Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal break down why pro athletes are moving into Bitcoin, crypto, and onchain prediction markets. ...

ROLLUP: Downtober Drags | Tempo Poaches Dankrad | Coinbase Buys Echo | Gold Surge! | Fed Access

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Downtober drags on… but not all is bearish. On this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and David break down why sentiment feels cold despite strong BTC, a...

State Of Crypto 2025 | a16z Crypto — Eddy Lazzarin & Daren Matsuoka

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

a16z crypto’s CTO Eddy Lazzarin and partner Daren Matsuoka return for our annual State of Crypto to map where 2025 really is on the curve: a price–...

Why This Crypto Cycle is Over | Michael Nadeau's DeFi Report #7

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the crypto cycle already over, or is this just a reset before one last push? Michael Nadeau from The DeFi Report joins Ryan to break down why he we...

How Futarchy Ends the Rug Pull Era | Felipe Montealegre & Proph3t

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Futarchy flips governance on its head—decisions aren’t voted on, they’re traded on.  In this conversation with Felipe Montealegre of Thea R...

ROLLUP: $19B Flash Crash | Binance Fee Leak | China L2 on ETH | $14B BTC Reserve

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Markets just saw a $19B wipeout in a single day. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, we break down the Friday Flash Crash, what really caused it, and whet...

Is Lighter Ethereum's L2 Perp DEX? | Founder Vlad Novakovski

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A $19B liquidation wave hit crypto 10 days after Lighter’s public mainnet—so we asked founder/CEO Vladimir Novakovski why they built a ZK L2 Perp ...

Exposing Binance's Listing Fees | CJ Hetherington

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Binance listing fees, finally out in the open. CJ Hetherington, Founder of Limitless, published the offer he received after no NDA. 8% of total token ...

Tom Lee & Arthur Hayes: How Crypto Flips Wall Street

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Lee and Arthur Hayes map how crypto is flipping Wall Street: BTC at fresh highs, ETH’s comeback, and a surge of institutional capital, tokenizat...

ROLLUP: Gold & BTC ATH | AI Bubble or Debasement Trade? | BNB Surge | $2B Polymarket Deal

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gold shatters $4,000, Bitcoin quietly hits new all-time highs, and Wall Street just made its biggest bet yet on prediction markets. In this week’s W...

The Bull Case For Prediction Markets | Ryan & David

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bankless, Ryan and David dive into prediction markets and their place in today’s financial landscape. They unpack how peer-to-pee...

Why China Builds Faster Than America & The Rest of the World | Dan Wang

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why does China build so much faster—and what does that reveal about two very different ways of running a society? Ryan and David sit down with Dan...

LIMITLESS: We Interviewed The Team Behind ChatGPT's #1 Feature

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI’s personalization leads, Christina Kaplan and Samir Ahmed map the shift from an “assistant with a notebook” to Pulse—the part of ChatGP...