ADA — the native cryptocurrency of the Cardano network — is among the myriad of cryptocurrencies that saw their price soar in 2021.On this episode of The Scoop, The Block's Frank Chaparro sat down with Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano and

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Max Boonen is the founder of PV01 — a platform that allows issuers to access capital and for investors to purchase debt using blockchain.In this episode, Boonen discusses the challenges of accessing debt capital markets and the potential of to

Bringing every market onchain

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Mike Cagney is the co-founder and CEO of Figure Markets.In this episode, Cagney discusses the need for a 'marketplace of everything,' the potential for equity trading on the blockchain, and more.OUTLINE00:00 Intro07:21 The 'Everything' Plat

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Soona Amhaz is the managing parter at Volt Capital.In this episode, Amhaz delves into the evolving crypto venture landscape including: challenges for capital allocators, the rise of meme coins, and controversies in token distributions.OUTLINE

Euler co-founder reflects on $195m hack and how DeFi protocols are becoming more robust

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Michael Bentley is the co-founder and CEO of Euler Labs.In this episode, Bentley reflects on last year's $200 million Euler hack and the recovery process and walks through the steps taken to enhance security in Euler V2.Euler V2 is a modular

The evolution of the crypto market

24 days ago 47m 49s

Roshun Patel is a partner at the Web3 venture capital firm HackVC.In this episode, Chaparro and Patel discuss the recent crypto market volatility and the trends shaping crypto's venture capital landscape.OUTLINE00:00 Intro08:11 Market Volat

Memecoins have more potential upside than blue-chip governance tokens

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Li Jin is a co-founder and general partner at the crypto VC firm, Variant.In this episode, Li analyzes the memecoin phenomenon that has recently swept over the crypto market, and explores how different types of memecoins capture and monetize a

It's time for Uniswap to 'prepare for war'

Apr 12th, 2024 22m 25s

Professor J.W. Verret teaches corporate and securities law and financial accounting at George Mason Law School.In this episode of The Scoop, Verret discusses the potential legal challenges that Uniswap may face from the Securities and Exchang

A trading shop you've never heard is trying to overhaul crypto's market structure to lower fees

Apr 11th, 2024 42m 55s

Brandon Mulvihill is the co-founder and CEO of Crossover Markets.In this episode of The Scoop, Mulvihill discusses crypto's changing market structure and the role of Crossover as an execution-only trading venue.OUTLINE00:00 Introduction and

World's largest hedge funds only just starting with crypto

Apr 3rd, 2024 42m 56s

Austin Reid is the global head of revenue and business at FalconX.In this episode of The Scoop, Reid discusses why we are still at the 'early stages' of institutional adoption of crypto, and the role retail traders have played in the market's

The 'kumbaya' era of crypto VC has come to an end

Apr 2nd, 2024 41m 22s

Haseeb Qureshi is a managing partner at the crypto VC firm Dragonfly.In this episode of The Scoop, Qureshi explains how the crypto VC landscape has changed during his five years at Dragonfly and why he believes 'points' are a more useful mecha

Bitcoin's rally caused VCs to 'aggressively' return to crypto

Mar 28th, 2024 40m 33s

Craig Burel is a partner at Reciprocal Ventures.In this episode of The Scoop, Burel explains how the recent market rally caused sidelined venture capitalists to return to the crypto industry in earnest.OUTLINE00:00 Introduction07:38 Nuances

Crypto’s market structure is still too fragile

Mar 21st, 2024 45m 7s

Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo.In this episode of The Scoop, Belshe discusses the growth and challenges of the custody market in the crypto industry, and explains what it will take to make crypto's market structure more robust.

Layer-2s are trying to transform Bitcoin's culture

Mar 18th, 2024 39m 5s

Muneeb Ali is the CEO of Trust Machines and the co-creators of Stacks — a layer-2 that enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to utilize bitcoin for base-layer security.In this episode of The Scoop, Ali discusses the growth and

How crypto firms like Coinbase are fending off drainer hacker groups

Mar 13th, 2024 29m 16s

This episode of The Scoop explores the technical headwinds and security challenges faced by the crypto industry.Blockaid co-founder Raz Niv discusses common scams and phishing attacks in the crypto space, and emphasizes the importance of good

How Bonk contributed to the Solana phone's sellout success

Mar 12th, 2024 42m 24s

In this episode of The Scoop, Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana, explains how a Bonk airdrop caused the Solana Saga mobile phone to sell out and discusses the importance of community and meme culture for bootstrapping crypto networks.

Why memetics and flows matter more in crypto

Mar 11th, 2024 32m 27s

Brian Rudick is a senior strategist at GSR.In this episode of The Scoop, GSR senior strategist Brian Rudick examines the differences between the forces driving the crypto markets and those affecting stocks. He also offers insights into the mar

Bitcoin ETFs are ushering in a 'multi-decade TWAP of buy only'

Mar 6th, 2024 37m 20s

Reed Werbitt is the CEO of the crypto market-making firm Flowdesk, and Greg Guttas is Flowdesk's Head of OTC.In this episode, Werbitt and Guttas share their insider perspectives on how the new spot bitcoin ETFs are altering market structures a

Here's how traders are positioning themselves for the bull run

Mar 1st, 2024 38m 13s

Luuk Strijers is the Chief Commercial Officer at Deribit.In this episode, Chaparro and Strijers delve into the technological edge and institutional focus as helped position Deribit as the dominant player in the crypto options space, as well as

Why Wall Street keeps getting Coinbase earnings wrong

Feb 28th, 2024 33m 9s

In this episode of The Scoop, Frank Chaparro and former Deutsche Bank payment analyst Ryan Todd delve into Coinbase's financial performance for the fourth quarter.Todd, a former payments analyst at Deutsche Bank, offers an in-depth analysis of

Solana's development ecosystem is 'healthier than ever'

Feb 27th, 2024 44m 5s

Colosseum is an online platform that runs hackathons, accelerates founders, and invests in breakout startups on Solana.In this episode, Colosseum co-founders Matty Taylor and Clay Robbins discuss how they are establishing Colosseum as an entry

The potential of new spot bitcoin ETFs has yet to be unlocked

Feb 22nd, 2024 37m 6s

Matthew Hougan is the Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise — one of several asset managers to recently launch a spot Bitcoin ETF.In this episode, Hougan shares his inside perspective on how market participants are reacting to the new spot Bitc

Bridging the gap between onchain and off-chain payments

Feb 2nd, 2024 30m 58s

Dr. Friederike Ernst is the co-founder of Gnosis and Gnosis Pay.In this episode, Dr. Ernst shares how Gnosis Pay is working to bridge the gap between on-chain and off-chain payments, and how the upcoming Gnosis Card will allow users to spend t

Chris Dixon's new book highlights how blockchains can lead to a more equitable internet

Jan 30th, 2024 51m 39s

Chris Dixon is a managing partner at a16z and the founder of a16z crypto.In this episode, Dixon gives an overview of his new book, Read Write Own: Building the Next Generation of the Internet, and explains how blockchains have the potential to

Noble is bringing RWAs to Cosmos

Jan 24th, 2024 46m 14s

Jelena Djuric is the co-founder of Noble and Sam Hart is the co-founder of Timewave Labs and the Head of Strategy at Skip Protocol.In this episode, Djuric and Hart — both seasoned Cosmos veterans — breakdown the recent advancements that have h