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 r...
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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 shu...
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...
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...
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 an...
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 d...
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...
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 use...
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,...
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...
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...
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 reali...
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 unsex...
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 y...
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 resol...
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:...
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....
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 callin...
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...