For a while there, Adidas Web3 lead Erika Wykes-Sneyd worried her push to get the 74-year-old brand working with Web3 partners might not work out. "Like signing a deal with the Bored Ape Yacht Club when Gargamel and Gordon were not doxxed indiv

gm: Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows on Deathbats, Fandom, and AI

May 10th, 2023 46m 43s

Avenged Sevenfold lead singer Matt Sanders, a.k.a. M. Shadows, is rehearsing for the band's upcoming tour and also figuring out how to upend what it means to be a fan. The band launched a Deathbats Club NFT collection in 2021. That is to say, t

gm: Mitchell Amador, Immunefi's White Hat Whisperer

May 3rd, 2023 53m 20s

When Web3 bug bounty platform Immunefi launched two years ago, CEO and founder Mitchell Amador says the bug bounties weren't great and adoption was slow. But the tides started to turn because even if exploiting a smart contract nets a bigger pa

gm: Marco Santori and Kraken Fight Back

Apr 26th, 2023 51m 19s

There's no doubt that the SEC dealt Kraken—and the outlook for crypto staking products in the U.S.—a big blow when it announced a $30 million settlement and ordered the company to stop offering the service to its customers in the states in Febr

gm: Arthur Hayes Says Crypto Failures Are A Sign of The System Cleansing Itself

Apr 19th, 2023 55m 55s

Arthur Hayes says the speed at which projects like Terra grow and then implode is a feature of the crypto industry, not a bug. He founded crypto exchange Bitmex in 2014 and then became the original crypto bad boy. In 2021 the DOJ charged him in

gm: The Mooch Is More Bullish on Bitcoin Than Ever

Apr 12th, 2023 1h 4m

Anthony Scaramucci of hedge fund SkyBridge Capital got burned by Sam Bankman-Fried: he co-hosted SALT conferences with FTX and sold a 30% stake in SkyBridge to FTX Ventures. And yet, "The Mooch" tells Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott "I'm more bul

gm AMA: Friederike Ernst Answers Your Gnosis Questions

Apr 8th, 2023 21m 58s

In our latest gm AMA, recent guest Friederike Ernst, Co-founer and COO of Gnosis, hopped into our listener Telegram room and answered questions via voice memo. Friederike talked about the Gnosis merge with xDai, how to decentralize a DAO, wheth

gm: Canadian Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Heads West

Apr 5th, 2023 51m 42s

Grab your picks and shovels for a Bitcoin mining deep dive. Even as Texas aims to pass a bill limiting rewards for Bitcoin miners, Toronto-based Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 is bullish on growth across the U.S. That's why Hut 8 recently announc

gm AMA: Neal Stephenson Answers Your Metaverse Questions

Apr 2nd, 2023 19m 44s

In our first gm AMA, recent guest Neal Stephenson hopped into our listener Telegram room and candidly answered questions via voice memo. Neal is the "Snow Crash" author who coined the term "metaverse" and is now working on open metaverse blockc

gm: Kevin Owocki Wants to Regenerate DeFi

Mar 29th, 2023 47m 39s

Move over, DeFi—ReFi is coming? Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki has stepped away from DeFi grant-giving machine Gitcoin as it fully decentralizes and is now focused on regenerative finance (huh?) and ReFi incubator Supermodular. He aims to "regene

gm: How Gnosis Has Endured

Mar 22nd, 2023 47m 20s

Gnosis first launched in 2015 as a decentralized prediction market built on Ethereum. Now it's a DAO, a multi-sig wallet, a staking chain, and a vibrant community with its own GNO governance token. Co-founder and COO Friederike Ernst talked to

gm: Coinbase's Top Lawyer Gets Real

Mar 15th, 2023 44m 46s

Paul Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase and a former U.S. magistrate judge in Northern California. He gave Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott his candid takes on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, the SEC's crackdown on staking, the sanctioning o

gm from NFT Paris: Animoca, Sandbox, Arianee, Adidas

Mar 11th, 2023 1h 3m

Dan Roberts and Stephen Graves returned from NFT Paris feeling super bullish after seeing tons of artists, builders, and luxury brands show up—and even Brigitte Macron. They recap the conference and play four interviews conducted there with Yat

Mar 10: Prices Plummet! Blood on the Streets!

Mar 10th, 2023 14m 23s

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Sponsored: Czhang Lin of LBANK Labs Talks Crypto Markets

Mar 9th, 2023 26m 38s

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Mar 9: Powell Says US CBDC Could Be Rolled Out Quickly

Mar 9th, 2023 17m 12s

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Mar 8: Judges Skeptical About SEC’s Bitcoin ETF Denial Reasoning

Mar 8th, 2023 12m 47s

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Mar 7: Yuga Lab’s TwelveFold NFT Collection Raises $16.5 Million

Mar 7th, 2023 12m 28s

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Mar 6: Binance Tried to Hire Gary Gensler

Mar 6th, 2023 10m 21s

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Mar 3: Silvergate’s Woes Ripple Through the Markets

Mar 4th, 2023 12m 26s

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gm: Neal Stephenson Maps Out the Metaverse

Mar 4th, 2023 33m 58s

Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his seminal 1992 sci-fi hit novel “Snow Crash.” Now he’s helming a metaverse blockchain company called Lamina1 and advocating for one free and open metaverse. He spoke to Dan Roberts and Stephen Gr

Mar 2: Our Interests Are Aligned with the SEC: Brian Armstrong

Mar 2nd, 2023 5m 15s

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Mar 1: Nishad Singh Pleads Guilty

Mar 1st, 2023 11m 4s

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Feb 28: SEC Hits Robinhood with a Subpoena

Feb 28th, 2023 14m 11s

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Feb 27: IMF Says Banning Crypto Being Considered

Feb 27th, 2023 16m 14s

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