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Bankless Podcast

The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Finance. DeFi, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies. Level up. Go bankless.

  1. 13 HR. AGO

    What Are BlackRock’s Crypto Plans? | Robbie Mitchnick Head Digital Assets at Blackrock

    That’s right, Bankless Nation, BlackRock on the podcast today. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, a company that manages over $10 trillion dollars in assets around the world, to put it in perspective, that’s 5 times the crypto market cap. Let’s just say what they do has ripple effects in global markets. But here at Bankless we wanted to figure out what they’re doing in crypto. That’s why we brought Robbie Mitchnick, BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets. We explore Crypto narratives in TradFi, how they measure the risk profile of Crypto, their plans for the future of ETFs, Tokenization and even DeFi. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠ 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum  🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle    🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT  https://bankless.cc/toku   ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/63?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E  ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 5:36 What is BlackRock? 7:33 BlackRock’s Crypto Arc 14:42 Digital Assets Team 17:01 BlackRock Bitcoin ETF 20:33 Investor Education 22:48 Narratives 24:58 Risk Management 34:04 Regulatory Environment 38:27 The Future of ETFs 42:30 Tokenization 51:00 What Needs to be Built 54:26 The State of DeFi 57:03 BlackRock’s Crypto Mission 1:00:44 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Robbie https://x.com/robbiemitchnick   Blackrock https://x.com/BlackRock   ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures ⁠

    56 min

  2. 3 DAYS AGO

    ROLLUP: The Debate | 1st DeFi Congress Hearing | ENS joins PayPal/Venmo | Coinbase’s cbBTC

    This week in crypto, the Trump vs. Harris debate sparked chatter, but did the markets react? DeFi had its first U.S. congressional hearing—how’d it go? Friend.tech burned its keys—abandoning? ENS integrated with PayPal and Venmo, while Coinbase launched their cbBTC, and Sony might release a stablecoin. Plus, did we see “war mode” Vitalik this week? ------ 🔥The Bankless Summit | 70% of for Citizens | 20% code WRU20 https://x.com/BanklessHQ/status/1832085867483083211  https://www.bankless.com/join   ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance  🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle    🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT  https://bankless.cc/toku   ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/62  ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 5:21 Markets https://farside.co.uk/?p=1518  https://x.com/biancoresearch/status/1832806811088638440  https://x.com/matt_hougan/status/1833149076722081906  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-cpi-fed-readies-to-cut-rates-next-week/  https://www.tradingview.c om/symbols/FRED-WALCL/    https://x.com/sonyasunkim/status/1832114732326957274  18:02 House lawmakers ended up divided in 1st Congressional DeFi hearing  https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409354  https://x.com/fund_defi/status/1833556632027955694   https://x.com/coinage_media/status/1833593592373243915  https://x.com/NeerajKA/status/1833530974212387228   https://x.com/rohangrey/status/1833543531228762323  https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1833557017023459526  27:29 The Debate - they didn’t mention crypto!  https://x.com/CNN/status/1833703753179857334  https://x.com/erikvoorhees/status/1833705605045051850  https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-win-the-debate-according-to-polls  https://polymarket.com/event/presidential-election-winner-2024?tid=1726028429396  https://x.com/shayne_coplan/status/1833127734844789106  https://x.com/Polymarket/status/1833679653191512442  https://www.theblock.co/post/315808/presidential-debate-risk-off-crypto  https://x.com/MikeIppolito_/status/1833874331539034448  36:49 War mode vitalik? If its not stage 2, its not a rollup https://x.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1834061075970683367  39:01 zkSync Stage 1? & New CMO?  https://blog.zknation.io/zksync-governance-system/  https://x.com/the_matter_labs/status/1833894141052494218  42:41 Sony Stable Yen https://x.com/delzennejc/status/1833243834563650038  43:21 Friend.Tech team renounces control of smart contracts https://x.com/friendtech/status/1832581118165709140  https://x.com/functi0nZer0/status/1833178200685318213  https://x.com/MacroMate8/status/1833393620407488542  https://x.com/friendtech/status/1833259362711986335  47:06 EigenLayer announced Season 2 Stakedrop!  https://blog.eigenfoundation.org/season-2-stakedrop/  48:55 ENS was integrated with PayPal and Venmo!  https://x.com/ensdomains/status/1833536140529570039  https://x.com/brantlymillegan/status/1833568986547818820?  50:16 Coinbase Bitcoin - cbBTC released! https://x.com/coinbase/status/1834208544247144949  https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1833603913888764064?s=46&t=2ZINVXJQKx6xO_6Wiiu_2gb  55:04 David Fighting at Permissionless 58:01 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures ⁠

    59 min

  3. 4 DAYS AGO

    Will AI Kill Democracy? | Yuval Noah Harari

    Today on a special in-person recording of Bankless we welcome special guest and best selling author, Yuval Noah Harari. Yuval is best known for his book Sapiens, and today, he is introducing ideas from his next book Nexus.  We go deep down the history rabbit hole and explore the question, if human beings are so wise, why are we so self destructive? ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David Unpacking the Episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-the-yuval-noah-harari-interview  ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2  ⁠  🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap  🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle    ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance  🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT  https://bankless.cc/toku   ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/61?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E  ------ TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 Start 00:08:07 The World of Information Networks 00:10:59 Truth vs Information 00:21:28 Tribal Consequences 00:25:05 Naive View Of Information 00:34:27 Populist View Of Information 00:44:54 Inventing New Mechanisms 00:53:33 A Brief History Of Information Networks 00:58:43 The Most Successful Story Ever Told 01:05:13 Story vs Information Network 01:12:29 Story Of Debt Clay Tablets 01:14:53 Entering the Age Of AI 01:20:50 Self Correcting Mechanisms 01:25:35 The Potential Of Crypto ------ RESOURCES Yuval: https://www.ynharari.com/  ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures ⁠

    1h 32m

  4. 6 DAYS AGO

    Where’s the ETH Bottom? | Ben Cowen

    When is this all going to reverse?  That’s the question we asked Benjamin Cowen, YouTuber, Founder of Into The CryptoVerse and famous chart maximalist who does some fantastic technical analysis. The main goal of this pod is to understand if we're currently going through Ethereum’s bottom but we also cover: - Are crypto 4 year cycles dead? - What’s next for ETH/BTC? - How’s Ben positioning his portfolio for what’s coming? Except to learn that and much more. ------ 🌊 KELP | DEPOSIT ETH WITH GAIN TODAY https://kelpdao.xyz/gain/?utm_source=Bankless  ------ 📣 INTO THE CRYPTOVERSE | GET 10% OFF https://intothecryptoverse.com/ref/bankless/  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance  🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT  https://bankless.cc/toku   🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle  🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap    ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/60?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E  ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 5:33 Where Are We? 7:44 4 Year Cycles 22:52 ETH/BTC Ratio 29:28 ETH Price Analysis 37:55 Blue Chips vs Altcoins 55:32 ETH/BTC Final Equilibrium 1:01:11 Idiosyncratic Events 1:13:34 The Flippening  1:16:23 The Bull Market 1:20:58 2026 1:25:00 Presidential Election 1:27:30 Ben’s Portfolio 1:32:08 Closing Thoughts ------ RESOURCES Ben Cowen https://x.com/intocryptoverse   Ben Cowen on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvqjQPSeaWn-uEx-w0XOIg   ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures ⁠

    1h 34m

  5. SEP 9

    Why Peter Schiff Hates Bitcoin & The Bull Case for Gold

    Why does Bitcoin sucks and is inferior to Gold? Peter Schiff is a financial commentator and economist that is relentlessly bullish on gold and a famous skeptic of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. He covers a ton of ground in this podcast, from what money really is, why gold can't be disrupted as the ultimate store of value, why we should abolish the Federal Reserve and principles to grow your wealth. ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David Unpacking the Episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-the-peter-schiff-interview  ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance  🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle    🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT  https://bankless.cc/toku   ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/59?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E  ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 7:07 What is Money? 15:05 Why is Gold the Apex Money? 27:59 Gold vs. Bitcoin Custody 36:27 Gold in The Internet Age 43:08 Gold as a Productive Asset 49:30 Gold vs. Bitcoin Demographics 53:90 Can Gold be Disrupted? 1:04:20 Should we Abolish The Federal Reserve? 1:13:33 Is the Stock Market Overpriced? 1:20:09 Principles to Grow Wealth 1:25:30 Steelmanning Crypto 1:36:17 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Peter Schiff https://x.com/PeterSchiff   Peter Schiff Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@peterschiff   SchiffGold https://www.schiffgold.com/   ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures ⁠

    1h 33m

  6. SEP 6

    ROLLUP: Trump’s DeFi Project | CFTC vs. Uniswap | Brazil Bans Twitter | Coinbase AI | Polymarket & Bloomberg

    This week in crypto, Trump’s new DeFi project sparked debate—is it legit or a grift? After the SEC, the CFTC targeted Uniswap—what’s going on with regulators? Brazil’s Twitter ban also made waves—what does it mean for free speech and crypto’s role in resisting censorship? Markets are asking if the 4-year cycle is dead, and Ryan has three takes on the lackluster crypto prices and what it could mean moving forward. On the bright side, Polymarket is now on the Bloomberg terminal, and Coinbase is looking to bank the robots—an exciting step for AI and crypto. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium  ------ 🌊 KELP | Deposit ETH with Gain today https://kelpdao.xyz/gain/?utm_source=Bankless  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance  🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle    🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT  https://bankless.cc/toku   ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ⁠https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/58?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E⁠ ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 2:03 Markets https://x.com/Negentropic_/status/1830685688662040961  https://outlierventures.io/article/token-trendlines-2-bitcoin-halving-the-four-year-cycle-is-dead/  https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1831316995691671641  https://x.com/Fiskantes/status/1831302629651042637  https://x.com/SplitCapital/status/1831317921089642915   https://x.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1831318267367145492  18:30 Trump revealed more about his DeFi project, World Liberty Financial!  https://www.worldlibertyfinancial.com/ https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1829141447087648796   https://x.com/lex_node/status/1831084542377206220  https://x.com/lex_node/status/1831105068952961399  https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1831145983847137451  https://x.com/worldlibertyfi/status/1831348462635397271  https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1829500453152837828  32:07 Brazil banned Twitter https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1829778143449698764  https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1831015509384364428  37:17 Binance exec Tigran Gambaryan entered Nigeria court on crutches https://x.com/_RichardTeng/status/1830869029705441553  41:47 Arbitrum released Stylus!  https://x.com/arbitrum/status/1831020553211089243  https://x.com/joeykrug/status/1831367181885698392  43:30 Euler V2 is back!  https://x.com/eulerfinance/status/1831331399619756375  48:03 Celestia releases technical roadmap https://blog.celestia.org/roadmap/  48:39 Bloomberg added Polymarket election data to Terminal https://x.com/M_McDonough/status/1829166689516442043  https://x.com/shayne_coplan/status/1830984489259901203  50:13 CFTC charges Uniswap with illegal derivatives trading https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8961-24  https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/phamstatement090424  https://x.com/MinarikLaw/status/1831363800542634459  53:11 AIs are now paying other AIs with crypto https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1829623778726592804  56:32 MEME of the Week https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1831386476841726226   59:03 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures ⁠

    60 min

  7. SEP 4

    Is the Ethereum Roadmap Off Track? | Max Resnick

    Is the Ethereum roadmap… off track? Have we lost the plot? Are L2s running interference, intercepting all the users, transactions, and value from reaching the L1? And if all of this is real, and not just FUD, what should we do about it? We have Max Resnick on the show today, he's an Ethereum researcher working at Special Mechanism Group and he’s got some opinions that are contrary to what is typically found out of the Ethereum Rollup Centric Roadmap.  Max explains why Ethereum is breaking down on its vision for bringing the world onto decentralized, censorship resistant, permissionless blockchains, and suggests possible alternative directions. ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David Unpacking the Episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-the-max-resnick-interview  ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠ 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance  🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle    🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT  https://bankless.cc/toku   ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/57  ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 5:08 Max’s Contrarian Take 12:20 The State of Rollups 17:59 Are L2s Extensions of Ethereum? 27:52 What Needs to Change 44:33 Based Rollups 50:05 The Holy Grail Blockchain 59:02 Scaling the L1 1:05:29 Max’s Incentives 1:09:53 Why Not Solana? 1:14:06 Navigating ETH’s Roadmap 1:18:05 ETH: The Asset 1:22:15 Value Capture 1:23:58 Call to Action 1:26:43 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Max Resnick https://x.com/MaxResnick1  Max Resnick Holy Grail Blockchain Tweet https://x.com/MaxResnick1/status/1826630256008331301   ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures ⁠

    1h 27m

  8. SEP 2

    U.S. Strategic BTC Reserve - The BITCOIN Act | Senator Cynthia Lummis

    U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis is a leading Bitcoin advocate in Congress who recently introduced her proposal, "the Bitcoin Act," which seeks to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve for the United States of America. In today's episode, we explore how the bill could address the $35 trillion debt, the conversion of gold certificates to Bitcoin, and its economic implications. ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-the-cynthia-lummis-interview  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠  🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap  🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle  ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance  🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT  https://bankless.cc/toku   ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/manage/1155/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/56  ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 6:40 The Bitcoin Act 10:01 Gold to Digital Gold 15:01 U.S. Strategic Reserves 18:00 U.S. Discretion in Selling Forfeited Bitcoin 20:44 Is Bitcoin Ready for Federal Reserve Backing? 23:24 Bitcoin Adoption to Tackle U.S. Debt 28:17 Bitcoin's Potential Impact 33:15 Being First in Bitcoin Strategic Reserves 39:22 Pros vs. Cons of Bitcoin Strategic Reserves 49:08 Bipartisan Prospects and Democratic Silence 53:52 Conservative Support vs. Liberal Adoption 56:30 Trump vs. Harris on Crypto Legislation ------ RESOURCES Senator Cynthia Lummis https://x.com/SenLummis  The Bitcoin Act  https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-introduces-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-legislation/  https://www.lummis.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/BITCOIN-Act-FINAL.pdf  ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures  ⁠

    53 min
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