Weekly Roundup 11/15/24 (Congressional agenda, FTX vs Binance, Polymarket raid)

On The Brink with Castle Island

Matt and Nic return for news and deals. In this episode: 

  • Nic recaps his trip to Congress
  • Vibes in Congress post election
  • The likelihood for stablecoin and market structure bills
  • What are the prospects for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
  • What’s happening in Devcon?
  • 18 state AGs are suing Gensler and the SEC
  • Gensler is hinting at retirement
  • FTX sues Binance and CZ
  • Sam Trabucco forfeits $70m in assets to the FTX estate
  • Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan raided by the FBI
  • Doodles partnership with McDonalds
  • The verdict on Fairshake's efforts in the election 
  • OCP developments and how Congress will tackle it
  • We review Trump's cabinet appointments so far 

Sponsor notes:

  • Coin Metrics, The Election Bull Run From the Perspective of Options Markets: Analyzing options markets to contextualize the election bull-run that brought BTC prices to $85,000.

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