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North Korea takes $387 million from Bitget and moves it through THORChain while NEAR's Shield freezes what it can, a Consensys validator hack tests whether staking was ever the risk-free rate, a quant named Benny shows Kalshi's perps volume was cooked, and Apollo warns that AI agents are coming for your checking account. Welcome to The Chopping Block, where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. This week the three of them record from a self-serve podcast studio in Amsterdam. Bitget loses 387 million dollars to North Korea's Lazarus Group and pays every claim from its user protection fund, but the stolen funds raise a harder question: THORChain lets them through while NEAR's Shield freezes them, so which one is actually decentralized? (Dragonfly is an investor in Bitget and NEAR.) Then a Consensys validator compromise tests staking as the risk-free rate, Robert prices insurance on US Treasuries at 35 basis points, a quant named Benny exposes Kalshi's perps volume, and the crew takes apart Apollo's warning about agentic bank runs, from Robert's one basis point checking account to Tarun's agent filing his insurance claims. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights

Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Are OpenAI and Anthropic reenacting the Fat Protocol Hypothesis Will AI agents cause bank runs optimizing bank balances for yield? If the AI complex bursts does it take down VC? Our tribute to Hester Peirce as she retires from the SEC The SEC and CFTC publish crypto FAQs Vitalik lays out his vision for Ethereum in 2030 Quantum progress is accelerating Illinois delays their crypto transaction tax  Is San Francisco better than it was? 

Taylor Monahan ties the Bitget hack to North Korea and the crew asks why THORChain still avoids the scrutiny Tornado Cash got. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! Visit 1inch to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://unchainedcrypto.com/go/1inch-sn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ======================================================== Quick favor: We're deciding what Unchained does next; new shows, stream times, what's worth paying for. ⁠Our listener survey⁠ takes five minutes, it's anonymous, and I read the write-in answers myself. Everyone who takes it can enter a drawing for a free year of Unchained Premium or Bits + Bips Premium. Open through Sunday, October 18. — Laura ======================================================== Attackers took $388 million from Bitget without ever getting its private keys. Opsek founder Pablo Sabbatella explains that the way in was a zero-day in a third-party security product the exchange relied on. Sabbatella, who now sits on Arbitrum's Security Council, joins Kain Warwick, Taylor Monahan, and Austin Griffith to trace the hack. Monahan attributes it to North Korea's TraderTraitor group and flags how fast the funds left Arbitrum, while the hosts ask why THORChain, which has halted its chain and reallocated balances before, still handles stolen funds. They also cover NEAR's SHIELD anomaly detection, reports of rogue AI agents hacking outside systems, whether retail should get the upside of a $2 trillion Anthropic IPO, and Vitalik Buterin's 2030 roadmap for Ethereum. Warwick's case: the harder the problem, the more superintelligence helps, and Ethereum is one of the hardest problems there is. Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kain Warwick⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Taylor Monahan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Co-host of Uneasy Money and Security Expert ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Austin Griffith⁠⁠ - Co-host of Uneasy Money and Builder Enablement at Ethereum Foundation Guest: Pablo Sabbatella - Founder at Opsek Timestamps

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The Emblem Show is hosted on Twitter Spaces and livestreamed across YouTube/X on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:00PM EST. The show focuses on news and events in the cryptocurrency industry, as well as inviting guests on from all sectors across DeFi, NFTs, AI, and interoperability.Adam McBride: https://twitter.com/adamamcbrideJake Gallen: https://twitter.com/jakegallen_Chris Devitte: https://twitter.com/chris_devvEmblem Vault: https://twitter.com/EmblemVaultMigrate Fun: https://x.com/MigrateFun

Bitcoin remains around $84,000 even as the 10-year Treasury yield pushes above 5.3%, its highest level since 2002. August PCE inflation came in cooler than expected, while Bitcoin ETFs recorded roughly $139 million in net outflows. Citi nevertheless raised its 12-month Bitcoin target from $82,000 to $113,000 and its Ethereum target from $2,240 to $3,028. The Treasury's expanded long-duration bond buyback program is also feeding a larger debate about debt management, liquidity and the growing role stablecoin issuers could play as buyers of short-term government debt.European regulators are scrutinizing Binance's operations under MiCA, while the Swiss National Bank is warning that large-scale stablecoin adoption could weaken traditional monetary-policy transmission. The prediction-market regulatory fight is also intensifying in Washington, MetaMask is precautionarily exiting affected Ethereum validators following misdirected block rewards, and DogeOS is developing an EVM-compatible environment that could expand Dogecoin into smart contracts, DeFi and other applications. Bitcoin itself remains stuck in the same basic structure, with $80K to $82K as the key floor and $87K as the next major level to reclaim.Happy HODLing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Crypto is changing—and the next phase may look very different from the one that got us here. Today on TraderMerlin, I'm joined by Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management, for a deep dive into the current state of cryptocurrency and digital assets—and where this rapidly evolving market may be headed next. Matt brings a particularly interesting perspective to this conversation. Before becoming CIO of Bitwise, he was CEO of ETF.com and has spent years working at the intersection of ETFs, institutional investing and digital assets. Today, Bitwise manages billions of dollars across crypto ETFs, private funds, separately managed accounts, staking strategies and other digital-asset investment products. In other words, Matt has a front-row seat to one of the biggest transformations taking place in financial markets: Crypto is moving from speculation toward financial infrastructure. We'll talk about Bitcoin and the current crypto market, but I want to go much further than simply asking where BTC goes next. We'll discuss: Crypto Regulation – After the failure of the CLARITY Act, what happens next? Can the SEC and CFTC provide enough regulatory certainty without Congress? Bitcoin & Ethereum ETFs – How ETFs have changed institutional access to crypto and what investor flows are telling us Institutional Adoption – Are pensions, endowments, RIAs, family offices and other major investors actually increasing their exposure? Tokenization – Could stocks, bonds, real estate and other traditional assets ultimately move onchain? Stablecoins – Are they simply digital dollars—or the foundation of an entirely new financial system? Wall Street Goes Onchain – What happens when traditional finance and decentralized finance begin to converge? Beyond Bitcoin – Where Matt sees opportunity across Ethereum, Solana, DeFi and the broader digital-asset ecosystem Crypto ETFs – What's next as Wall Street continues expanding the menu of regulated crypto investment products? The Next Crypto Cycle – Will the next major move be driven by speculation—or real-world adoption? And this last point may be the most important. For years, crypto investors have been waiting for "the institutions" to arrive. But maybe we're asking the wrong question. What happens when institutions don't simply invest in crypto—but actually begin using blockchain technology to rebuild parts of the financial system? Tokenized securities. 24/7 markets. Instant settlement. Stablecoin payments. Onchain lending. Crypto ETFs. Institutional DeFi. Those aren't just different ways of trading Bitcoin. They're potentially different ways of running financial markets. And that's exactly what I want to explore with Matt. Listen now:

Jordi Alexander, founder and CEO of crypto trading firm Selini Capital, explains why retirement is a 20th century dream and why no amount of money will ever be "enough" in a world being rebuilt by AI. He also shares the skill AI can't replace, where he sees Bitcoin and Zcash heading next, and why health, not wealth, will be the biggest divide of the next 20 years.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Bitget lost $388 million — and days later, CEO Gracy Chen says scammers posing as a major investment team targeted her. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ======================================================== Quick favor: We're deciding what Unchained does next; new shows, stream times, what's worth paying for.⁠⁠ Our listener survey⁠⁠ takes five minutes, it's anonymous, and I read the write-in answers myself. Everyone who takes it can enter a drawing for a free year of Unchained Premium or Bits + Bips Premium. Open through Sunday, October 18. — Laura ======================================================== On September 24, attackers used a zero-day in a third-party security product to slip fraudulent withdrawal commands into Bitget's wallet system, pulling out about $388 million across chains from Ethereum and XRP to Zcash. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen joins Laura Shin to reconstruct the attack, from test transfers that stayed under risk thresholds to her team's call to switch wallets back on mid-attack and sweep hot and warm funds into cold storage. She lays out how the exchange's protection fund covered users and why reopened withdrawals showed an early net inflow. Then comes the industry response. Tether, Circle, and NEAR Intents froze funds, THORChain declined her request, and only $632K is frozen so far. Chen also describes scammers impersonating an investment firm to target her after the hack. Her case that "permissionless doesn't mean neutral" puts a hard question to DeFi. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained Guest: ⁠Gracy Chen - CEO of Bitget Timestamps

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Bitcoin remains stuck around $83,700 as Treasury yields stay elevated and markets wait for August PCE inflation data. Spot Bitcoin ETFs nevertheless recorded another $66.2 million in net inflows, extending their positive streak to nine trading sessions. Robinhood is rolling out AI agents capable of automatically executing trades along with crypto perpetual futures offering up to 10X leverage, Coinbase Clearing is now a registered CFTC derivatives clearing organization, Blockchain.com is reportedly pursuing an IPO at a $4 billion to $6 billion valuation, and Bitwise has launched the first U.S. spot NEAR ETF.The Bitget hack is also turning into a test of crypto's censorship-resistant ideals. NEAR Intents intervened when hacker-linked funds attempted to move through its system, while THORChain refused Bitget's request to blacklist attacker addresses and subsequently processed swaps involving millions of dollars in hacker-linked assets. Meanwhile, Zcash developers are targeting more than 50,000 private payments per second, Aztec has relaunched zk.money as a privacy-focused Ethereum wallet, and Cboe and S&P are considering future tokenized options. Matt's immediate market focus remains unchanged: hold the $80K to $82K Bitcoin floor, then see whether $87K can eventually become support instead of resistance.Happy HODLing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Howard Wu, CEO of Provable and Shield Wallet, makes the case that full, on-chain transparency was never a design principle—it was a limitation that mainstream finance cannot build on. He draws a direct line from the internet's switch from HTTP to HTTPS to where crypto needs to go next, and argues that the biggest obstacle to private stablecoins isn't the technology. Instead, it's the assumption that compliance and privacy are fundamentally at odds. Key Takeaways: Why on-chain transparency creates broken user journeys for everyday payments, payroll, and institutional trading How zero-knowledge proofs enable compliance without risk of traditional KYC data collection What distinguishes the Shield Wallet's approach to privacy from that of a standard crypto wallet What Howard predicts will be mainstream by 2030 that almost no one in the industry is building for today Guest Bio: Howard Wu is the CEO of Provable and Shield Wallet. He's also a founder of the Layer-1 blockchain, Aleo. His contributions to zero-knowledge proofs and elliptic-curve cryptography have been adopted across the industry, including by protocols such as Ethereum and Zcash. Howard graduated from UC Berkeley with a research background in cryptography, computer security, and verifiable computing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About this Show: The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all! Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together. The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API. Music by: Ari Dvorin Produced by: Sam Laliberte  

Welcome back to the Crypto Curious.This week we've got 3 big stories to cover - starting with a $387 million attack on Bitget, allegedly linked to North Korean hackers — but the really interesting part might be what Bitget did next, and the crisis playbook it had ready to go.Then, your stocks just went DeFi. Coinbase's tokenized shares are now being accepted as collateral on Aave, bringing traditional assets directly into the world of decentralised lending. And finally, Europe is switching on the digital euro. The ECB has activated its first live system, with a 2029 launch target — and potentially some pretty big implications for how Europeans pay, move and hold money. So, we've got a crypto heist, Wall Street moving deeper into DeFi, and the euro getting a digital upgrade.Let's get into it

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Bitget lost $388 million — and days later, CEO Gracy Chen says scammers posing as a major investment team targeted her. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ======================================================== Quick favor: We're deciding what Unchained does next; new shows, stream times, what's worth paying for.⁠⁠ Our listener survey⁠⁠ takes five minutes, it's anonymous, and I read the write-in answers myself. Everyone who takes it can enter a drawing for a free year of Unchained Premium or Bits + Bips Premium. Open through Sunday, October 18. — Laura ======================================================== On September 24, attackers used a zero-day in a third-party security product to slip fraudulent withdrawal commands into Bitget's wallet system, pulling out about $388 million across chains from Ethereum and XRP to Zcash. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen joins Laura Shin to reconstruct the attack, from test transfers that stayed under risk thresholds to her team's call to switch wallets back on mid-attack and sweep hot and warm funds into cold storage. She lays out how the exchange's protection fund covered users and why reopened withdrawals showed an early net inflow. Then comes the industry response. Tether, Circle, and NEAR Intents froze funds, THORChain declined her request, and only $632K is frozen so far. Chen also describes scammers impersonating an investment firm to target her after the hack. Her case that "permissionless doesn't mean neutral" puts a hard question to DeFi. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained Guest: ⁠Gracy Chen - CEO of Bitget Timestamps

Bitcoin is holding around $84,000 despite Brent crude trading around $106 to $107, Treasury yields above 5% across much of the curve and significant market expectations for another Fed rate hike. Strategy added another 1,665 Bitcoin for roughly $143 million while repurchasing about $152 million of STRC preferred shares, and Tom Lee's BitMine has now accumulated more than 6 million ETH. A Senate investigation also found heavy USDT usage among hundreds of sanctioned Iran-linked wallets, while Tether says it has helped freeze roughly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT this year.The Bitget hack is also raising a larger philosophical question after attackers attempted to move more than $50 million through NEAR Intents, which intervened despite describing its service as permissionless and uncensorable. Meanwhile, Anthropic's potential IPO is already being traded through synthetic crypto perpetuals before the company actually goes public, and its enormous infrastructure commitments highlight another Bitcoin headwind: AI companies are becoming major borrowers in an already crowded bond market. Vitalik Buterin is also outlining a dramatically different Ethereum architecture for 2030 built around cryptographic proofs, formal verification and quantum-resistant technology.Happy HODLing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Milk Road Crypto, John Gillen sits down with Joe Andrews, co-founder and CEO of Aztec Labs, to break down the return of ZK.money, Aztec's privacy-focused Ethereum Layer 2, and why programmable privacy could become one of the most important pieces of crypto infrastructure. Today, using Ethereum can expose your wallet balance, transaction history, counterparties, and financial activity to anyone. Aztec is betting that zero-knowledge proofs can change that, bringing private payments, private DeFi, identity verification, institutional finance, and eventually AI-powered transactions to Ethereum without giving up decentralization.~~~~~⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Joseph Chalom says Larry Fink's line that Ethereum is the toll road to tokenization is exactly the right way to think about the asset, and he lays out why the market's bearish turn on ETH has it backwards. The SharpLink CEO and former BlackRock digital assets executive breaks down Ethereum's case as a trust commodity, walks through BlackRock's new research on agentic finance and stablecoins, and explains why he thinks agent-driven commerce could eventually dwarf crypto's entire market today.Joseph Chalom is CEO of SharpLink, an Ethereum treasury company, and previously served as Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock.The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.00:00 Intro02:11 ETH Stuck In The Middle Of Two Theses04:12 Ethereum Is The Trust Commodity For Finance06:13 ETH Has 50% Of All Stablecoin Activity08:14 Agents Will Run Where The Liquidity Is10:33 Selling ETH At $1,53012:44 Ethereum Is The Internet With Ownership16:00 Robinhood Chain Revenue Up 10x ETH Flat18:14 Larry Fink on ETH As The Toll Road20:43 Internet Had No Token Ethereum Does22:57 Regulation Helps Markets Thriv26:32 Dot Com Bubble Parallel30:16 Only The Internet Compares To EthereumGuest Socials:Joseph Chalom X: https://x.com/joechalomSharplink X: https://x.com/SharplinkSharplink Website: https://www.sharplink.com/Partners: If you run concentrated liquidity positions you know the grind. Price moves, you're out of range, you're rebalancing at, like, 3am. 1inch Aqua lets you take a different approach. You can stack multiple positions on the same token balance instead of babysitting a dozen pools, and your tokens never leave your wallet. Your liquidity stays awake, so you can catch up on your sleep. Check it out at https://1inch.com/aqua---Dinari - Over 230 1:1 backed tokenized stocks, ETFs & more with dividends. US-based SEC transfer agent. Available on 5+ chains & via API. https://dinari.com/---Space and Time is providing verifiable data infrastructure for onchain finance. A decentralized database, blockchain indexer, and ZK coprocessor in one, giving DeFi protocols,stablecoins, and tokenized assets accurate, provable data. ---Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/---

Wie zijn spaargeld op de spaarrekening laat staan, ziet het door inflatie langzaam minder waard worden. Dat is de kern van Zwemmen in het Geld, het boek van Milou Brand. Beleggen is volgens haar minder eng dan veel mensen denken en geen luxe extraatje, maar noodzakelijk onderhoud. Ze noemt het een cursus financiële zelfverdediging: wie weet hoe het werkt, laat zich minder snel iets aanpraten. Haar advies voor de meeste mensen is simpel. Probeer de markt niet te verslaan, maar leg maandelijks een bedrag in in een breed gespreide ETF, een beleggingsfonds dat de wereldeconomie volgt. Die filosofie gaat terug op John Bogle, de oprichter van Vanguard. In 2021 zei ze in haar eigen podcast Jong Beleggen, na een gesprek met Bart Mol, dat ze bitcoin misschien wel ging kopen. Dat is er nooit van gekomen. Ze ziet niet waar het rendement van bitcoin vandaan komt en houdt het liever bij bedrijven die echte waarde creëren. Een hype vindt ze bitcoin niet meer, maar een volwaardige bouwsteen in haar portefeuille ook nog niet. Goud en crypto komen in haar boek dan ook niet voor. Co-host Bert Slagter legt uit dat hard assets als goud en bitcoin wel degelijk in een gespreide portefeuille passen, ook via een goedkope ETF. Er zijn periodes geweest van tien tot vijftien jaar waarin de beurs zijwaarts bewoog. Een cryptomandje als de Coin50 ziet hij niet zitten: dat bestaat voor de helft uit bitcoin, en voor de rest kun je beter zelf iets kiezen. Dan de vraag waarom zo weinig mensen beleggen. In het boek staat de Vrouw met de Rode Sjaal centraal, die Milou tijdens een avond in een zaal vol publiek vroeg hoe ze het in haar hoofd haalde om mensen tot beleggen aan te sporen. Voor haar generatie was dat ook nooit nodig. Nederland heeft bovendien een goed pensioenstelsel, en in heel Europa wordt meer gespaard en minder belegd dan in de Verenigde Staten. Beleggen heeft ook een imagoprobleem: een boekhandel zegde een interview met Milou af omdat het onderwerp niet bij de winkel paste. Tot slot: de aandelenmarkt stijgt al bijna twintig jaar. Wat als er een verloren decennium aankomt? Milou raadt aan de inleg te spreiden en gedisciplineerd door te gaan. Voor wie ouder is en een kortere horizon heeft, wordt het ingewikkelder. Bert zou dan in ieder geval ook hard assets in zijn portefeuille willen. Co-host is Bert Slagter. Over de podcast Cryptocurrency are here to stay. In deze wekelijkse podcast gidst Daniël Mol je door het belangrijkste cryptonieuws, langs hypes en trends, voor- en tegenstanders en winst en verlies. In het A-deel bespreken we het laatste nieuws en in het B-deel gaan we in gesprek met een gast. Van cypherpunkpioneers tot grootbanken die aan de haal gaan met stablecoins, van Bitcoin tot Ethereum tot CBDC's. Alles passeert de revue.Reageren? Stuur dan een mail naar cryptocast@bnr.nl Gasten Milou Brand is auteur van het boek Zwemmen in het Geld, co-host van Jong Beleggen, de podcast, columnist in het FD en presentator van BNR Beurs. Bert Slagter is analist bij kennisplatform Bitcoin Alpha. Links Zwemmen in het Geld, het boek van Milou Brand Jong Beleggen, de podcast van Milou Brand Return on AI, de nieuwe BNR-podcast over AI met C-levels Host Daniël Mol is presentator en redacteur van de Cryptocast. Hij is sinds 2017 met Bitcoin bezig en kwam in 2021 bij het team van de Cryptocast. Redactie Daniël Mol Matthijs Damsteeg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Schuldeisers van het failliete Rotterdamse cryptobedrijf Knaken hebben ruim 14 miljoen euro aan claims ingediend, namens duizenden gedupeerde klanten. In totaal is er nog altijd 4 miljoen euro spoorloos, blijkt uit een analyse van het Financieele Dagblad. Het verhaal begint bij de AFM. De toezichthouder wilde Knaken geen vergunning geven onder MiCAR, de Europese cryptowet, en deed niet lang daarna aangifte. In juli vroeg het Openbaar Ministerie het faillissement aan, en de rechter ging daar later die maand in mee. De problemen begonnen al veel eerder. In 2020 werd Knaken gehackt en werden er twintig bitcoin gestolen, destijds goed voor zo'n 150.000 euro. Later raakte het bedrijf er nog drie kwijt. Om het gat te dichten kozen eigenaar Ronald J. en een medeoprichter ervoor om bitcoin te hedgen, onder meer met hefboomconstructies. Een hedge beschermt je tegen koersbewegingen, maar wie dat met geleend geld doet, wordt juist kwetsbaar als de koers de verkeerde kant op gaat. Klanten en investeerders hoorden jarenlang niets van de problemen. J. is verdachte in de zaak en sprak onlangs toch met het FD. Wat betekent de ondergang van Knaken voor de Nederlandse cryptosector? Dan de markt. Bitcoin sloot de week af op zo'n 85.000 dollar. Dat weekslot, de koers in de nacht van zondag op maandag, lag boven de top van begin mei rond 83.000 dollar. Een week eerder sloot de koers al boven het gemiddelde van de afgelopen vijftig weken. Voor veel analisten is dat reden om te spreken van een vroege bullmarkt, een periode van stijgende koersen, na elf maanden van dalende koersen. Tegelijk begint het in de wereldeconomie te kraken. Wereldwijd staan staatsobligaties in de uitverkoop, waardoor de rente hard oploopt. Dat maakt de kans groot dat centrale banken als de Fed en de ECB de rente verder verhogen. Het sentiment in de cryptosector is goed, maar in hoeverre kunnen zulke ontwikkelingen het feestje verpesten? Tot slot AI. Volgens analisten van vermogensbeheerder BlackRock gaat crypto een belangrijke rol spelen voor AI agents, software die zelfstandig taken uitvoert en daarbij ook zelf betaalt. In een nieuw rapport schetst BlackRock een economie waarin zulke agents voor kleine betalingen terugvallen op stablecoins, cryptomunten met een vaste waarde die meestal aan de dollar gekoppeld zijn. Waarom juist stablecoins, en niet bitcoin of ether? En hoe ver weg is dat scenario nog? Co-host is Bert Slagter. Over de podcast Cryptocurrency are here to stay. In deze wekelijkse podcast gidst Daniël Mol je door het belangrijkste cryptonieuws, langs hypes en trends, voor- en tegenstanders en winst en verlies. In het A-deel bespreken we het laatste nieuws en in het B-deel gaan we in gesprek met een gast. Van cypherpunkpioneers tot grootbanken die aan de haal gaan met stablecoins, van Bitcoin tot Ethereum tot CBDC's. Alles passeert de revue.Reageren? Stuur dan een mail naar cryptocast@bnr.nl Gasten Bert Slagter is analist bij kennisplatform Bitcoin Alpha. Links Miljoenen verdwenen bij Rotterdams cryptobedrijf Knaken Feyenoord, Rico Verhoeven en verdwenen miljoenen: het drama van Knaken Tweede faillissementsverslag van de curator van Knaken OM verdenkt Knaken van verduistering en valsheid in geschrifte Cryptoplatform Knaken failliet verklaard, 7 miljoen euro ontbreekt BlackRock over de groei van de AI economie en de rol van digitale activa Host Daniël Mol is presentator en redacteur van de Cryptocast. Hij is sinds 2017 met Bitcoin bezig en kwam in 2021 bij het team van de Cryptocast. Redactie Daniël Mol Donner Bakker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bitcoin is trading around $83,300 as leverage continues to come out of the market, leaving the $82,000 to $87,000 range as the key structure to watch. Solana ETFs, meanwhile, recorded their strongest week yet with roughly $188 million in net inflows, led by approximately $128 million into Bitwise's fund. Franklin Templeton is also bringing tokenized money-market assets into Bybit's collateral system, allowing eligible users to access trading credit while the underlying assets remain in regulated custody and continue earning yield.The bigger discussion is the SEC's new staff guidance on crypto token buybacks. For functional networks, the Division of Corporation Finance says an issuer's buyback of a non-security token does not by itself create the managerial promise necessary to make that token part of an investment contract. That raises a broader issue for token holders: owning a token associated with a company does not necessarily give you the ownership rights or legal protections of owning that company's stock. California is also restricting meme coins involving public officials, the Bitget hacker continues moving stolen XRP, Vitalik Buterin is outlining a more proof-driven and privacy-focused future for Ethereum, and Bitcoin researchers continue working on migration strategies for a future quantum threat.Happy HODLing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Lex chats with Simon Taylor, who heads up market development at Tempo, the payments-native blockchain built by Stripe as a high-performance settlement layer for stablecoins and tokenized money. Simon is also the founder of Fintech Brain Food, one of the sector's most widely read newsletters. They discuss why there is no Fedwire for the internet, and why the next wave of on-chain volume is coming from enterprise money movers like Deel rather than crypto-native builders. Simon explains why tokenized deposits, stablecoins and TradFi settlement will converge on a single chain, why agentic commerce is still stuck in its WAP-phone era, and how the Machine Payments Protocol is being designed as an IETF-grade standard that can settle across Tempo, Stripe or any card network.NOTABLE DISCUSSION POINTS:The AI productivity gap is an operating-model gap, not a tooling gap. MIT found nine in ten companies get zero productivity gain from AI, while Ramp's own data shows the heaviest users generate 2x higher revenue on 40% less capital. What separates them is four ingredients: AI evals as a cultural default, a shared library of skills (Ramp has 350+), non-engineers shipping production code (12% of Ramp's human-initiated PRs), and treating AI fluency as the primary staff learning curve.Agentic commerce is in its WAP-phone era. Nobody is actually paying for things with agents at any scale - Walmart's ChatGPT checkout converts worse than its dotcom, Target has told customers they are 100% liable for anything an agent buys, and Walmart and Amazon block third-party agents outright as fraud. The real volume is in B2B finance teams automating PDF-invoice-to-payment flows through Ramp and Brex, which is where Machine Payments Protocol and x402 will first find product-market fit.On-chain cash settlement is less than 0.1% done, and Tempo is being positioned as the missing Fedwire for the internet. The pitch is not a new L1 competing on TPS benchmarks - it is a settlement layer designed by payments veterans who understand that payments are all edge cases, with permissionless issuance combined with opt-in receive policies (TIP-20 upgrades on ERC-20, block/allow lists, embedded compliance) that let enterprises finally clear their RFP checklist.TOPICSFintech, Stablecoins, Tokenization, DigitalAssets, Payments, Settlement, RWA, DeFi, TradFi, CapitalMarkets, AgenticCommerce, AgenticPayments, AIAgents, MachinePayments, Ethereum, Canton, Blockchain, Web3, Tempo, Stripe, Anthropic, Ramp, Brex, Deel ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT

Gas prices, tariffs, AI hacks and war fears are stacking up on the market at once. We break down whether this is max pain for crypto or the setup for the next leg up.~This episode is sponsored by iTrust Capital~iTrustCapital | Get $100 Funding Reward + No Monthly Fees when you sign up using our custom link! ➜ https://bit.ly/iTrustPaul00:00 Intro00:10 Sponsor: iTrust Capital00:45 This week in crypto01:20 Losses02:30 Iran rejects Trump ceasefire03:10 Iran Foreign Minister: Ready to negotiate ceasefire if...04:20 Iran using Tether04:40 BlackRock: 60/40 portfolios are dead05:45 Hold assets06:40 Alts vs BTC07:25 Tokenization race08:40 Solana flips HOOD09:10 Backpack: We want the entire stock market on Solana10:10 Largest buy back in history11:00 Robinhood Summit Tomorrow#Crypto #Bitcoin #ethereum~Market MAX PAIN?

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q.AOBMax: flooded the downstairs after leaving a sink running over the weekend, spent Saturday ripping out old timber and clutter he'd been meaning to clear out anyway, then a full kids' day that left them sick afterwardsQ: spent the weekend building his own local, voice-controlled AI assistant after watching the new Spider-Man filmQ: read this week's letter #7 from Keone, "Notes from the Inside", posted on The Rage -- a tough one on conditions moving between facilities; audio version out later this week, timed with Rick's Free Samurai prize drawQ: enjoyed last week's Freedom Tech Friday listener questions episode, ranging from Bitcoin to Monero to privacy, multisig and local AINEWSResearch lab [alloc] init, founded by Misha Komarov with Clara Shikhelman as Head of Protocol Research, published Shielded Bitcoin, a proposal for Zcash-style private transfers needing no soft fork; shielded transactions are encrypted data blobs carried in OP_RETURN or witness data that Bitcoin only orders and timestamps, while separate indexer software checks zero-knowledge proofs and stops double-spends; value sits in encrypted "notes" spent by publishing a one-time nullifier that proves the spend without revealing which note it is; the peg moving real BTC in and out isn't designed yet and rests on an unproven witness-encryption scheme called PIPEs v2; CoinDesk reports fees around 4x normal, a trusted setup and no launch date -- Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk, allocinitBlockstream published its own post-mortem of the 6 September Liquid exploit: a rangeproof-cache flaw dating to April 2018 ("Bug A"), responsibly disclosed 2 August and patched by 11 August, introduced a second flaw ("Bug B") where unprefixed cache keys let two different proofs collide; the attacker used it to mint about 4,000 unbacked LBTC and peg out 3,996 BTC through SideSwap, draining the reserve from about 4,205 BTC to 197 BTC; 3,400 BTC was returned and the network resumed 9-10 September, but about 602 BTC remains with the attacker and peg-outs stay paused with no date; the 11-of-15 federation multisig worked exactly as designed, the failure was in the software deciding what counted as a valid transaction -- BlockstreamBitget detected unauthorised transfers from its hot and warm wallets at 18:31 UTC on 24 September and froze withdrawals platform-wide; CEO Gracy Chen says the attacker compromised a backend system, spoofed transaction data and triggered Bitget's own approval process, with private key compromise ruled out; the loss was revised from $351.6M to about $387.5M once Zcash and TRON assets were counted, mostly ETH, TRX and USDT with no bitcoin taken; Circle and Tether froze about $318K, while roughly $83M in native XRP moved beyond Ripple's power to freeze; North Korea attribution comes from Bitget, Elliptic and MetaMask's Taylor Monahan, not yet from any government; Bitget says its User Protection Fund covers the loss and is reopening withdrawals in phases from 28 September -- CoinDesk, TFTC, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk (freezes), CoinDesk (XRP), BitgetAMLBot traced part of the Bitget haul from TRX to USDT, bridged to Ethereum, swapped to about 145 ETH, then through THORChain into about 4.59 BTC, with roughly 4 BTC of that linked to an unnamed Wasabi coinjoin round and the addresses "blacklisted"; most of the stolen funds have not moved -- AMLBot on X, crypto.newsMatt Morehouse disclosed two denial-of-service bugs in Eclair v0.13.1 and earlier, fixed in v0.14.0: oversized feature-bit init messages could allocate about 300MB per message and crash a node, and zlib-compressed channel queries could inflate 64KB into 64MB; his smite fuzzer found the first, an LLM-assisted search for similar code patterns found the second -- Delving BitcoinLightning Labs published four security advisories: a High-rated bug let an invoice be marked settled after an interceptor had already cancelled the HTLC, affecting tapd 0.5.0 and earlier and lnd 0.18.4 to 0.18.5; three Low-rated DoS bugs covered a gossip stall, a panic on a malformed DNS seed response, and memory exhaustion from Brontide write allocations; nodes on current lnd (0.21.3 or 0.20.4) are unaffected -- Lightning Labs securityGalaxy's Alex Thorn disclosed that 52.37 BTC from weak-entropy Coldcard addresses, about 2.8% of the total taken and roughly $4.5M, had been moved into an address belonging to a Wyoming "Crypto Recovery Trust" carrying an OP_RETURN reading "claim:cryptorecoverytrust.com"; the trust says owners can reclaim coins by proving control, but the white-hats are unnamed and its legal documents are unverified -- CoinDeskSEC Commissioner Hester Peirce announced she resigns effective 2 October after nearly nine years to join Regent University School of Law, leaving the SEC with two Republican commissioners and no replacement nominee named; two days earlier, at SIFMA's Digital Assets Conference, she argued for replacing KYC document collection with zero-knowledge proofs and attribute-based credentials, telling regulators "we build ever bigger data haystacks on the theory that we will find a needle or two inside" -- CoinDesk, TFTC, TFTC (speech)New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul sued Polymarket US in state court on 24 September alleging unlicensed gambling and underage betting, seeking at least $4.6B in fines; Polymarket moved the case to federal court and countersued, arguing the Commodity Exchange Act gives the CFTC exclusive authority; the next day a unanimous Sixth Circuit panel ruled Kalshi's sports contracts are subject to state gambling law, splitting with the Third Circuit and making a Supreme Court case more likely -- CoinDesk, CNBC, CoinDesk (Kalshi)BitMEX stopped trading, deposits and new positions at 04:00 UTC on 23 September after 11 years, with API withdrawals ending 28 September and website withdrawals staying open; from 1 October verified accounts with a balance pay the greater of 1% a year or $50 a month; owner HDR Global Trading cites a strategic review, with no legal or regulatory issues behind the closure -- CoinDeskThe x402 protocol, reviving HTTP 402 "Payment Required" for machine payments, merged Ben Carman's spec for paying with Lightning: the server issues a BOLT11 invoice whose description hash commits to the exact request, the client pays and returns the preimage, and the facilitator checks it against the payment hash and invoice signer without querying the receiver's node -- GitHub PR #2861RELEASESAm I Exposed v0.36.0 -- 2026-09-26Detects Whirlpool tx0 premix outputs and Wasabi 1.x coinjoins it previously missed or misgraded, and flags input-side address reuse as a leak instead of scoring it as good.Jam v2.0.0-beta.4 -- 2026-09-24Fourth beta of the JoinMarket web UI: adds Sign Message, pins the exact UTXOs shown when sweeping, and lets you freeze or unfreeze several UTXOs at once.Shhark v0.8.1-shhark-preview.5 -- 2026-09-12A self-hosted, privacy-focused Ark wallet preview adding optional Payjoin v2 on Signet, Tor-only networking that fails closed, Silent Payments and experimental post-quantum messaging.ZEUS v13.2.2 -- 2026-09-23Stable release embedding LND v0.21.3 with SATS Routing and Coinos as swap providers, plus a critical fix moving iOS wallet data out of iCloud-synced Keychain.Blockstream Green Android 5.7.0 -- 2026-09-24Adds manual coin selection filters, transaction notes and a price chart, and restores 2-of-2 and 2-of-3 multisig account creation.umbrelOS 2.0.0 -- 2026-09-22Stable release of Umbrel's home-server OS adding a Photos app, multiple user accounts, virtual machines, FailSafe RAID storage and a redesigned App Store.SignerOS v1.3.0 -- 2026-09-23Fixes a bug where one valid input in a multi-input transaction could make a fake change output look legitimate; every input is now checked against the actual cosigner keys.Blockstream Green Desktop 3.6.0 -- 2026-09-21Adds paying to Lightning addresses and LNURL-pay from the send flow, redesigns manual coin selection, and restores 2-of-2 and 2-of-3 multisig account creation.Everything ElseAmber v6.6.5 -- 2026-09-21Nostr signer: relay backups are now encrypted with a separate derived key, previously readable by any app with a remembered decrypt permission.Arkade TS SDK 0.4.76 -- 2026-09-25Developer SDK patch release for the Arkade (Ark) protocol, following 0.4.75 earlier in the week.Bisq Easy (Android) 0.14.1 -- 2026-09-26Security release: embedded Tor updated to 0.4.9.13, closing high-severity Tor issues, now built from Bisq's own Tor fork.Sister app: Bisq Connect 0.10.0 (2026-09-26), same Tor upgrade.Breez Spark SDK 0.26.0 -- 2026-09-23Adds receiving USDT and USDC, and instant or expedited claims for on-chain deposits.Cashu TS v4.11.0 -- 2026-09-22Backported fixes: melt preimages checked against the invoice hash, requests default to a 5-minute timeout, and closed subscriptions report an error.cln-nip47 v0.2.1 -- 2026-09-26Nostr Wallet Connect plugin for Core Lightning. Dependency updates.Core Lightning v26.06.8 -- 2026-09-22Security release fixing responsibly reported vulnerabilities, confirmed to include the dual-fund drain reported in issue #9498. Upgrade.Ditto v2.42.2 -- 2026-09-27Nostr social server: verified-link badges, muted users blocked from push notifications.Also in window: 2.39.2 to 2.42.0 (posting streaks, emoji packs, push).JoinMarket-NG 0.40.0 -- 2026-09-27BIP-329 labels now distinguish coinjoin output, coinjoin change and deposits; adds PSBT v2 signing and warns when the wallet daemon listens in plaintext off localhost.

Bitcoin is pulling back after reclaiming a key long-term technical level - so is this just a healthy dip, or are the bears about to take control again? In today's episode, John and LG break down the latest Bitcoin price action, why the recent weekly close still matters, and what would invalidate the bullish setup. They also dig into the growing macro risks facing markets, including rising bond yields, liquidity pressures, and why crypto may still be showing relative strength despite a shakier backdrop.~~~~~⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Chainlink CCIP 2.0 goes live on mainnet with support for the Fast Confirmation Rule. Vitalik coins Ethereum as The Cryptographic World Computer. Glamsterdam is on track for activation in December. And Jumper spins out of LIFI. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/ccip-20-goes-live-with-fast-confirmation-rule-support Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.

Eric Conner says something is happening in crypto he's never seen in 14 years of watching these markets: coins like Zcash and the perp exchanges are decoupling from Bitcoin entirely. The EIP-1559 co-author and OG Ethereum developer explains why he refuses to pick sides between Hyperliquid and Lighter, breaks down the meme-stock trading phenomenon eating into Robinhood's tokenized stocks, and reacts live to major new CFTC guidance that could unlock tokenized assets as collateral.Eric Conner is co-author of Ethereum's EIP-1559 and an OG Ethereum developer and investor who has been active in crypto since 2012.AI Supercycle is Rollup's series on the intersection of AI and crypto, powered by NEAR.00:00 Intro 02:09 Eric Fumbled Venice At Sub $1 04:10 Own Both Hype And Lighter And Chill 06:13 Eric Sold ETH To Buy Hyperliquid 08:14 Why Eric Stopped Being An ETH Maxi 10:33 Perps Are The Most Obvious Trade Out There 14:24 Tokenized Stocks Will Get Meme Coin'd 18:54 CFTC Staff Clears Tokenized Collateral Live 22:14 ETH Does Not Need A Thesis To Pump27:49 Robinhood Chain Already $500M Annualized 29:24 Wall Street Has Not Priced Robinhood Chain 35:31 Meme Stock Outpaces Its Own Market Cap 39:23 52 Month DeFi Bear Market Is OverGuest Socials:Eric Conner X: https://x.com/econoarPartners: If you run concentrated liquidity positions you know the grind. Price moves, you're out of range, you're rebalancing at, like, 3am. 1inch Aqua lets you take a different approach. You can stack multiple positions on the same token balance instead of babysitting a dozen pools, and your tokens never leave your wallet. Your liquidity stays awake, so you can catch up on your sleep. Check it out at https://1inch.com/aqua---Dinari - Over 230 1:1 backed tokenized stocks, ETFs & more with dividends. US-based SEC transfer agent. Available on 5+ chains & via API. https://dinari.com/---Space and Time is providing verifiable data infrastructure for onchain finance. A decentralized database, blockchain indexer, and ZK coprocessor in one, giving DeFi protocols,stablecoins, and tokenized assets accurate, provable data. ---Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/---

Dropping a podcast with @mdudas, Managing Partner at @6thManVenturesA crypto business can make money without that money reaching its token holders. In this episode I wanted to talk with Mike about what gives a token value and who benefits when the business grows.We get into how he built 6MV, why he invests in applications, and how he thinks about returning money to investors when a business might not stay ahead for long.A big part of the conversation is about tokens and equity. Mike thinks teams need to explain what people are buying, where the revenue goes, and how token holders benefit. We talk about buybacks and how much control holders really have.We also get into why trading apps need better assets and fewer ways for users to lose money, his views on Solana, Hyperliquid, and Ethereum, and where crypto fits into AI.We discuss- How Mike built 6MV- What makes a crypto business last- When to sell and return money to investors- Stablecoins, lending, and prediction markets- Social trading, slippage, and keeping users- Solana, Hyperliquid, and what gives ETH value- Tokens, equity, buybacks, and what holders actually own- Why Mike calls XRP and Cardano “memes for suits”- AI agents, payments, and compute markets- Whether AI companies are worth their valuationsTimestamps0:00 – What Gives Tokens Value?0:58 – Mike Dudas and the Origins of 6MV6:20 – Liquidity and Returning Capital to Investors10:16 – Real Adoption Beyond Crypto Token Prices16:56 – Crypto Apathy and the Rise of AI21:43 – Why 6MV Changed Its Consumer Investing Thesis26:34 – Social Trading, Slippage, and Better Assets36:25 – Solana, Hyperliquid, and the Chain Landscape39:37 – The Problem with ETH's Value Proposition43:16 – Tokens, Equity, and Where the Money Goes46:21 – Governance Tokens, XRP, and Cardano49:40 – Where Crypto Meets AI55:38 – Are AI Valuations in a Bubble?58:42 – The Next Five Years of CryptoEnjoy!

Themen & Timestamps:00:00 Begrüssung und Themenüberblick00:38 Bitcoin-ETFs mit stärkster Zuflusswoche seit Oktober 202503:18 Vitalik Buterins Vision für Ethereum06:08 Solanas Alpenglow-Upgrade erreicht nächste Testphase07:49 Hester Peirce verlässt die SEC09:02 Südkorea: Fehlende Liquidität treibt Stablecoin-Preis hoch

What up, Vigilantes? I have some news for you… Rusty Russell just quit Lightning development. The man who helped build Bitcoin's flagship Layer 2 walked away, and nobody should be surprised. Lightning's usability was always “send five transactions and hopefully one lands.” That's not a payments network. That's a coin flip with extra steps. And the devs didn't just leave Lightning. They fled to Ark Protocol and BitVM. Meanwhile, Elements, Blockstream's federated sidechain model, got hacked. An inflation bug in confidential transactions cost roughly 4,000 BTC, and about 3,600 were returned. This was a feature with formal mathematical proofs of safety. Proofs! The irony, as JK put it on the show: “You could have a catastrophic failure and then your formal methods, like specification and math… doesn't really count anymore.” So Bitcoin's scaling scorecard is 0-for-2. And while Core ossifies, a fork is coming that could absorb the entire altcoin market… Watch on: Odysee | YouTube | X | Rumble | Bitchute | Vigilante.tv Here's the uncomfortable truth: scaling didn't fail technically. It failed culturally. Paul Sztorc's BIP 300/301 drivechain proposals went nowhere from 2015 to today, not because they didn't work, but because ossification culture, as JK said, has “taken the wind out of everybody's sail.” The forks are happening in culture, not code. And when BitVM and Ark get pre-approved as consensus in what JK called “Bitcoin Core secret meetings,” you start to understand who actually decides what Bitcoin is. Then there's the cap itself. Peter Todd is pushing tail emissions and a demurrage idea that would tax your wallet to pay miners. And BlackRock's own commercial disclaimer says the 21 million cap is “subject to change.” The 21 million cap is Bitcoin's whole pitch. If that's negotiable, what isn't? Which brings us to October. eCash is forking in roughly six weeks, and the design is beautiful in its simplicity: Bitcoin Core's exact codebase plus a single change, BIP 300 and BIP 301. That's it. There's no replay protection either, which means holders have to actively split their coins and miners have to actively choose between chains. This fork packs a real punch. BIP 301 is blind merge mining: every main-chain block includes a commitment to a sidechain block, and that sidechain block only becomes valid once the main-chain block is valid. Miners can't give their hash rate away for free anymore. They have to choose. And the sidechain ecosystem? It's exploding. There's ETHside, an Ethereum clone compatible with Ethereum wallets; Zside, a Zcash-style chain; Thunder, with big blocks and instant payments via double-spend bonds; Truthcoin prediction markets; and CoinShift, a decentralized market maker for atomic swaps. Then there's JK's own Elements Plus. In his words, “I took all their research and just switched the one flaw… the pegging and peg out mechanism.” He swapped the federated peg for BIP 300/301, baking the lessons of the Elements hack right into the design. My thesis, and I said it straight to JK: SHA-256 will consume the entire altcoin market. Any altcoin, whether it's Solana, Zcash, or Hyperliquid, could be recreated as a drivechain on eCash. Given how quickly the crypto space has grown, and all the scaling tech clashes and the on-chain horizon we've covered before, this is the next chapter of making Bitcoin fun again. Why build on a less secure chain when you can plug into the most secure protocol on Earth? Alpha and beta testnets are already live. Watch the full interview, and follow the eCash Telegram at ecash.com. Follow me on X @VamosVigilante Want to be on the pulse of crypto? Access our exclusive portfolio, insider reports, full archive of monthly newsletters, real-time market updates, buy/sell alerts, and private community chat and get instant access to the latest issue of our monthly newsletter… Subscribe now! FREE “Crypto 101” Video Training – Watch Our Millionaire Crypto Analyst Reveal the Exact Crypto Wallet Setup He Wished He Had When Starting Out: https://CryptoVigilante.io/crypto101TCV Summit: “What Matters Most in Crypto” | https://dollarvigilante.spiffy.co/checkout/what-matters-most Replay videos available! The Crypto Vigilante (Follow on All Socials) The post Bitcoin Scaling Failed… eCash’s October Fork Is About to Capitalize appeared first on The Crypto Vigilante.

John Lilic is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Tria, a self-custodial neo-finance platform for spending, trading and earning across chains. One of crypto's longest-serving builders, he worked at the Bitcoin Center in New York City in 2014 before joining ConsenSys as one of its first employees, spending six years helping to build the Ethereum ecosystem.  Why you should listen Most neobanks ask users to hand over their assets. Tria's pitch is that you can have the one-tap convenience of a fintech app without doing so. Lilic explains how the product routes assets across chains while leaving the user in custody at all times, so money can move from an Earn vault to a card top-up to a trading position on Hyperliquid or Decibel without Tria ever holding it. He argues this is more than a philosophical distinction. Self-custody has let Tria grow in Korea and Japan, markets where offering custodial products has become increasingly difficult, and where supporting many chains matters because communities such as XRP holders are so large. He also makes the case that when users move funds to themselves rather than deposit into a custodian, they keep control over when a taxable disposal occurs. The larger idea, and the one Tria is taking to institutions, is that any company with a large audience can now become a financial company. Composable on-chain infrastructure means a streaming service, a marketplace or a community app can offer its users wallets, cards and tailored rewards without building a bank from scratch. Lilic walks through the music platform Lissen, which is launching on Tria's infrastructure, and a more ambitious use: tracking the real-world spending that follows an artist into a venue. That attribution data, he argues, could let a venue plan for a show, measure its value afterwards, and eventually support credit products that advance artists money against future bookings rather than making them wait months for royalties. In the hot take round, Lilic moves to the subject he is best known for outside Tria: quantum computing. He argues that cryptographically relevant quantum machines could threaten the elliptic curve cryptography that secures the entire industry sooner than most expect, and that the long-term future of money may rest on physics rather than protocols. It leads him to a pointed view on Ethereum's reversal of The DAO hack, which he calls a mistake, and a thesis that quantum-based systems would remove the option of reversing finality altogether.  Supporting links Stabull Finance Tria Tria on X Andy on X Brave New Coin on X Brave New Coin Enjoyed the episode? Please give us a five-star review. It helps other people find the show.

Tokenized stock launchpads are the best performing coins in crypto right now. We just saw launchpads on Solana and Robinhood Chain run to billion dollar market caps in the early stages of the bull market. Today we take a look at what could become the leading launchpad for the biggest blockchain in crypto, Ethereum, which just launched and still has a very small market cap.

Joseph Chalom breaks down how AI agents, stablecoins, tokenization and DeFi could reshape the financial system and disrupt trillions in fees. He explains why Ethereum could become a key settlement layer for this agentic economy, while Bitcoin remains a hedge against monetary debasement. Ultimately, he believes AI agents could automate investing, saving and borrowing while putting more financial control back in consumers' hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bitcoin is holding around $84,000 despite a difficult macro backdrop, with the 10-year Treasury yield around 5.2%, oil above $100 and markets pricing additional Fed tightening. Spot Bitcoin ETFs nevertheless recorded another roughly $190.7 million in net inflows, extending their positive streak to six days and approximately $2.84 billion. Meanwhile, ARK Invest is bringing its $1.3 billion venture fund onchain through Securitize, giving eligible investors Ethereum-based access to a fund containing stakes in companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks.The Federal Reserve has also begun implementing the GENIUS Act with proposed rules governing stablecoin reserves, capital, custody and applications from banks that want to issue payment stablecoins. Matt argues that the increasingly important question is who captures the billions of dollars in potential yield generated by stablecoin reserves. Bitget also disclosed a $351.6 million security breach involving its wallet infrastructure, while its protection fund is large enough to cover the estimated losses. Across all of these stories, the larger theme continues to be traditional financial infrastructure moving onchain while Bitcoin holds surprisingly firm despite worsening macro conditions.Happy HODLing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Weekly Trend, David Zarling and Ian McMillan examine a market sending dramatically different signals above and below the surface. The S&P 500 remains near its highs while the Nasdaq, technology, and several areas of semiconductor leadership push toward or into new highs, but underneath the indexes, breadth has deteriorated sharply, with a large percentage of stocks already experiencing significant corrections. David and Ian break down whether this washout is setting the stage for a broadening Q4 rally or whether the weakness underneath the surface eventually pulls the major indexes lower. They discuss semiconductor leadership, AI and software, FANG and MAG stocks, struggling small and mid caps, rising CCC credit spreads, industrials and materials testing key technical levels, and the continued pressure from rising interest rates. They also check in on Treasury bonds, Bitcoin, Ethereum, the U.S. dollar, and several important relative-strength relationships as they look for clues about what comes next.

SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom breaks down why Ethereum becomes the settlement layer for the A.I. agent economy after Meta unveiled Muse. We cover agent payments, stablecoins, and what this means for ETH holders.~This Episode is sponsored by Ether.Fi~Join Ether.Fi and Earn cashback on trades of tokenized stocks and more!➜ ether.fi/@paulbarronGuest: Joseph Chalom, CEO at SharplinkSharplink website ➜ https://bit.ly/SharplinkETH00:00 Intro00:10 Sponsor: EtherFi01:00 Meta MUSE01:40 A.I. article02:10 How could Ethereum win vs Meta?04:00 Meta training for the agentic future05:45 Mark Zuckerberg sparks another meme season06:30 If Agents dont need ENS why would they need eth payment rails?09:25 Why wouldn't Meta and others build their own blockchain?11:40 Will anyone trust Meta privacy features?14:00 Explain ERC-800416:15 12 month agent outlook18:45 Chains will be Hubs of expertise?20:25 Middlemen already taken over most of AI workflow?22:45 Qualcomm Snapdragon for A.I. mobile phones23:50 Why has ETH allowed zCash to takeover the privacy narrative?25:25 A.I. Agent Memecoins paired with Tokenized Stocks potential?29:30 TradFi vs degens ecosystem31:00 Is Uniswap the true winner?33:10 Entering Tokenization Flop Season?36:00 Consumer flexibility vs KYC#Meta #AI #Crypto~Meta Muse A.I. Agents Need ETH

El error más caro en cripto no es comprar mal: es medir mal. Cuando valúas un blockchain como si fuera una empresa —buscando utilidades, múltiplos y flujos descontados— estás usando el lente equivocado. Un layer 1 no es una empresa: es una economía soberana. Y las economías se miden por su PIB, no por sus utilidades. ▶ Episodio completo

Securitize is tokenizing ARK's Venture Fund, putting stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic and Stripe onchain. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie caught up with Securitize CEO and Co-Founder Carlos Domingo at the Avalanche Summit to get more insight on the fund. He shares why it's launching on Ethereum first and what a daily NAV and on-chain trading mean for investors. Plus, he weighs in on the tokenized equities fight between AMC and Robinhood. - Timecodes: 00:00 - Carlos Domingo on Tokenizing ARK's Venture Fund 00:24 - Why This Fund, and Why Now 01:03 - Ethereum First, But Not Ethereum Only 01:24 - What Retail Investors Need to Know 02:04 - Does Onchain Make OpenAI and Anthropic Exposure Liquid? 02:35 - The AMC Fight: Should Companies Get a Say? 03:37 - Tokenization Education Has to Reach CEOs Now 04:17 - How Much of the Roadmap Rides on Exemptive Relief 05:07 - What Happens If the SEC's Rules Get Challenged 05:41 - The Future: When We Stop Saying "Tokenized"

Send us Fan MailCrypto doesn't have a technology problem, it has a translation problem. Most people outside the space hear one word and mentally bundle everything together, from Bitcoin to meme coins to Ethereum, then assume it's all the same risk. I sit down with DeFi Dave, Head of Growth at CAP and a longtime DeFi educator, to break that framing and rebuild it with clear categories, simple analogies, and practical takeaways founders can use right now.We explore why on-chain finance is in a real metamorphosis: stablecoins are becoming more institutional and more “TradFi-like,” while tokenised stocks and stock tokens are pulling liquidity and experimentation back toward the wild energy of early DeFi. Dave explains stablecoins in the most useful way I've heard: like PayPal or Venmo balances, except on a public network with many counterparties verifying balances. That shift changes everything for product design, marketing, and adoption because the winning stablecoin UX makes the blockchain disappear.Then we go deep on on-chain credit. Dave outlines CAP's approach with funded underwriters who post collateral, do diligence, and take penalties when risk is mispriced, aiming to solve the incentive issues that have made lending markets blow up again and again. We also cover regulation (what the Genius Act clarifies, what lending still lacks), macro conditions like rates and liquidity, and why rising markets can trick teams into believing they found product-market fit. Finally, we get into “lore building,” where the community writes the story and the company acts as the shepherd, plus how to stand out when AI makes content flat and abundant.This episode was recorded through a Descript call on September 9, 2026.Read the blog article and show notes here: https://webdrie.net/how-stablecoins-and-on-chain-credit-are-going-mainstreamIf you care about stablecoins, DeFi lending, on-chain credit, crypto marketing, and building trust at scale, this conversation will sharpen your thinking. Subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review if you want more conversations like this........................................................................... 

Tim Warren charts whether this crypto rally has more room to run or if a major retracement is next. Key levels on Bitcoin, Ethereum and altcoins, and where he expects the squeeze to end.~This episode is sponsored by Tangem~Tangem ➜ https://bit.ly/TangemPBNUse Code: "PBN" for Additional Discounts!Guest: Tim Warren, Host of Investing BrozInvesting Broz Youtube ➜ ‪‪  @TimWarrenTrades  Follow on Twitter ➜  @timsta6753 00:00 Intro00:10 Sponsor: Tangem01:00 Market strength03:50 Matt Hougan: Institutional diamond hands04:40 Bitwise insights05:30 Andrew Parish: inflows weren't just IBIT06:45 Do we get $80K again?09:15 ONDO analysis12:55 NEAR analysis15:00 LIT analysis17:40 ETH year end prediction20:05 UNI analysis23:10 SOL year end prediction24:30 JUP analysis27:25 CRCL analysis29:00 VIRTUALS analysis#Crypto #Bitcoin #Ethereum~Any Juice Left To Squeeze?

Bitcoin and Ethereum have both climbed roughly 10% over the last five trading sessions, something @CharlesSchwab's Adam Lynch calls "impressive" following the Fed's interest rate hike and failed Clarity Act vote. However, a strong boost in leverage leads Adam to issue some caution for crypto traders. He then addresses the fallout in D.C. since the Senate failed to each enough votes to pass the Clarity Act last week.

The crypto market is back at $3 trillion in combined total investments of assets, says Adam Lynch of Charles Schwab, who highlights the stunning rally in Bitcoin and Ethereum driving the new bull run. The legislative process behind the Clarity Act may also still be alive in 2026, as Adam points to headlines suggesting a resurgence in discussions. Bitcoin's price action making a "golden cross" adds technical muscle to the crypto rally as well.

I'm playing all night long at Venue MOT in London on 14 Nov. Grab a ticket here: https://ra.co/events/2527068Sign up for free to join our community.--Nathan Fake is a producer and live performer from the UK. He has released albums on Border Community, Ninja Tune, via his own channels, and most recently through French label InFiné. That latest album, Evaporator, is discussed during the conversation, as well as his wider journey through production processes and methods of work. We discover which ancient version of Cubase is still his go-to DAW, and which synths and other studio objects are most often used in his tracks. We also talk about his live set, which by his own admission is actually pretty good. This is a good one with a guest we've wanted to have on for ages. Get involved! --MERCH: Support the podcast with a purchase from our new line of awesome merch. Tees, hoodies, water bottles... etc! Cheap worldwide shipping!Visit the store here: hotflushrecordings.com/shop--Listen to the Not A Diving Club radio show: https://soundcloud.com/scubaofficial/sets/not-a-diving-clubYou can now discuss the show on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicNotDiving/If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features the show without ads, regular bonus podcasts, and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.You can also make a one-off donation to the podcast using a card, with Paypal, or your Ethereum wallet! Head over to scubaofficial.io/support.Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation in the public channels.Listen to the music discussed on the show via the Music Not Diving Podcast Spotify playlist00:00 Intro03:45 Fitting into the scene07:30 Are albums relevant again?12:40 Studio methods26:30 Border Community and early career47:30 Playing live Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if you could build a living digital twin of your organization? We had a great conversation with InsightTwin CEO Michael Schank about combining AI, enterprise operations, and smart technology to create better organizations—and make strategic decisions with more clarity. He is the author of Digital Transformation Success: Achieving Alignment and Delivering Results with the … Continue reading Ep 294- InsightTwin CEO Michael Schank

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Welcome back to a monumental new season! In this special bonus-premiere episode, Nichel Anderson dives deep into the evolution of divine storytelling, celebrating a decade of podcasting and introducing the highly anticipated comic book series: The Adventures of Nichel MOLIAE with Chris Jenkins. Join us as we explore the journey from our very first comic episodes to this expansive new universe, featuring multi-talented independent artist and rapper Chris Jenkins. Discover how his music, the hit song "Atlantans," and the mystical lore connect directly to the PMTR NFTs (Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion) on the Ethereum blockchain, the upcoming Mitsrayim film project, and the future MOLIAE Token ecosystem. Tune in for exclusive insight into upcoming snippet release dates, volume details, and how you can support independent creators directly through the Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) movement! Chapter Timestamps: 0:41 – SHOW Starts, greetings, and the DTC Movement 2:06 – Timeline of the Comic Book Series: The Adventures of Nichel MOLIAE with Chris Jenkins 2:30 – Comic book relation to the MOLIAE Ecosystem built by Nichel Anderson (Nichel MOLIAE) 3:00 – Main Characters of this comic book series 3:18 – How to get a copy of this comic book series and access to snippet pages once released 4:12 – When the full book is scheduled to be released 4:28 – Release dates for the preview page snippets of the new comic series 5:11 – Background history of writing the first MOLIAE comic book series 6:43 – Storytelling of MOLIAE as a divinity ecosystem for life purpose 7:14 – "Atlantans" song: How it connects to the MOLIAE Comic Book series 7:38 – History of short stories and connection to the comic book storyline (Future Series of Nahor and Princess Aamina) 7:54 – Mitsrayim: A Memoir of a Past Life in Ancient Egypt book overview (essential reading to catch up on the lore) 8:00 – The MOLIAE Ecosystem overview 8:12 – Mitsrayim film project connections 8:30 – PMTR NFTs (Pyramid Mystery Temple Reunion) on the 10k Ethereum Blockchain 8:39 – Synopsis of The Adventures of Nichel MOLIAE with Chris Jenkins 10:22 – Special guest Chris Jenkins shares the journey behind his rap contribution to the "Atlantans" song 14:11 – Expanded synopsis of The Adventures of Nichel MOLIAE with Chris Jenkins 15:48 – Future plans for the comic book series 16:00 – PMTR NFTs connections to the broader MOLIAE Ecosystem 16:16 – The MOLIAE Token Project vision 16:30 – Chris Jenkins' independent ecosystem of music and film projects 16:36 – Special guest appearances lined up for future volume issues 16:52 – Aligning with destinies and life purposes 16:58 – Support independent creators: Buy Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) NOW 17:10 – How to buy direct to empower independent artists 17:44 – MOLIAE Merch: How to support and available options 18:00 – Purchasing Chris Jenkins' music and future package deals 18:13 – The power of the DTC ecosystem 18:30 – Episode recap: The Adventures of Nichel MOLIAE with Chris Jenkins 18:56 – How to follow, support, and sign up for the newsletter 19:55 – MOLIAE's contribution to DTC collections: LOVE Luxi Royal Gift Box featuring direct connection via Telegram with the musical artist 20:27 – Closing thoughts and deep gratitude Explore & Support Directly: Shop Music & Collections: MOLIAE.com/shop PMTR NFTs / Mint Early: moliaeworld.com Skincare for Kings & Queens: MOLIAEBeauty.com Support Chris Jenkins Direct: Follow and shop at @chrisjenkinstvg Archive & Reading List Links: Past Comic Episode 1 (2,145 downloads): “Beginning Moments of Disloyalty Amongst Tribal Leaders” Vol 1 Listen on Podbean Past Comic Episode 2 (2,259 downloads): “Deeds of one can be many within the Sudan” Listen on Podbean Read the Webtoon Series: Subscribe and view chapters of MOLIAE World: Before the Time of Princess Aamina on Webtoons Get the Book: Mitsrayim: A Memoir of a Past Life in Ancient Egypt by Nichel Anderson available on Amazon

Crypto News: Bitcoin printed its highest weekly close in 4 months and reclaimed the 50-week MA for the first time since Nov 2025. XRP on the brink of a golden cross as focus switches to altcoins. Ava Labs president says NYSE spent a year testing Avalanche Avax technology for tokenization plans.