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The compromise that got banks to tolerate the CLARITY Act striped yield from idle stablecoins. Adrian Wall says the same banks will soon want it back. "I guarantee you, 18 months or less from now, they'll be back... on Capitol Hill saying, you know what would be a good idea? Yield on stablecoins..." PMN EP04, with Sarah Wynn & Kelvin Sparks: 00:00 - Prediction Market Recap 04:40 - CLARITY Slips to September 08:26 - Coldcard Fallout 13:36 - CLARITY: Ethics, BRCA, Consumer Protection 16:06 - Plan B: SEC and CFTC Rules without Congress 21:17 - DOJ-vs-State-AGs 34:51 - Live Odds Check 52:08 - Financial Literacy 59:59 - The Stablecoin Yield War 1:04:55 - Prediction Markets: CFTC, States, & the NFL 1:25:47 - Clarity before Midterms?
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Yuval Rooz: “For institutions, privacy isn’t optional, it’s a requirement.” Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Asset, joined Gareth Jenkinson at EthCC - Ethereum Community Conference Cannes to discuss the growing push for institutional adoption in crypto and what’s still missing. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 01:12 - Canton at ETHCC 02:45 - Canton vs Ethereum 04:30 - Why Privacy Matters 06:59 - Privacy vs ZK Debate 10:23 - Quantum Threat and Governance 14:37 - Visa and Super Validators 18:06 - Why Institutions Need Privacy 23:06 - Market Outlook and Adoption 30:24 - UX and Real Adoption
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside Tether’s KPMG Audit: Gold Bars, Bitcoin, and $6B in Excess Equity Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino joins The Starting Block to unpack details of their KPMG US audit. Ardoino explains how Tether finally cleared the biggest hurdle in the room with a Big Four audit from KPMG US, why the timing mattered, and what the new yearly audit plus quarterly attestations mean for the company and the industry. Timestamps 00:00 - Paolo Ardoino joins to discuss Tether’s Big Four audit announcement 01:16 - Why the audit took years and what made it possible now 03:31 - Why Tether chose KPMG US after earlier controversy around attestations 04:58 - Yearly audits and quarterly attestations as a transparency standard 05:15 - Responding to critics who still question Tether’s transparency 06:36 - The 7 billion redemption stress test in 2022 07:57 - Why auditors counted gold bars in Tether’s reserves 08:40 - Tether’s gold and Bitcoin reserve holdings 09:23 - The private fundraising narrative and why Tether says it does not need capital 12:31 - Tether’s AI effort, Qvac, and the mission to serve the unbanked 14:59 - Supporting Bitcoin security work after the Coldcard exploit 16:52 - Confirming annual audits and quarterly attestations going forward
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Inside Ethena's new neobank built on AVAX Ethena Pay is live — a consumer neobank from the dollar issuer itself, not a card wrapper on someone else's stablecoin. Exclusively on Avalanche🔺. G | Ethena and John Nahas on Layer One with Kelvin Sparks: OUTLINE 00:00 Open 02:10 EthenaPay Overview 03:10 Save, Send, Spend 06:25 Why Avalanche 09:04 Direct to Consumer 13:20 Invisible Adoption 18:00 No Ethena chain 21:02 C-chain today 24:54 EthenaPay versus other crypto neobanks 27:46 Embedded finance 36:06 RWA perps 39:18 Black Opal 42:00 Buybacks, Labs IP 43:33 Close
The Block28,364 次观看 • 16 天前
General-purpose chains force the business to fit the chain. Ava Labs CBO John Nahas says Avalanche flipped it: custom Layer 1s built for specific jurisdictions, assets, or businesses. “My business development team is your business development team.” Full interview with Kelvin Sparks at SALT: 0:00 - Introduction 0:15 - Ava Labs Leadership Change 1:23 - Real World Assets 2:44 - Avalanche Summit Preview 4:01 - Crypto Maturity 5:16 - Choosing Avalanche
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Frederik Gregaard: "It’s not about Cardano winning. It’s about blockchain winning." Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard sat down with Gareth Jenkinson at Paris Blockchain Week to discuss how blockchain is rebuilding financial trust and infrastructure. Mr. Gregaard also highlights real-world use cases, from onchain financial reporting to tokenized assets and integration with TradFi. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 01:36 - Financial Data Onchain 05:34 - Tokenized Assets Access 06:46 - TradFi Integration 09:28 - Architecture and Trust 11:04 - Cardano Positioning 12:39 - Bitcoin Integration 14:52 - Blockchain Principles 16:05 - Real World Usage 17:29 - Market Structure Shift
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Ethereum cofounder on why ETH DATs are built to last "We're long-term permanent capital..." Joseph Lubin chatted with Gareth Jenkinson about DATs, DeFi security, and the roadmap to Ethereum's golden age – live from Consensus 2026 OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 02:25 - Future of DATs 06:10 - KelpDAO Exploit & DeFi 09:13 - Linea & Layer-2s 13:08 - Synchronous Composability 16:30 - Machine Intelligence & DeFi 18:05 - Quantum Threat to Crypto
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Most layer-1s still fund validators by taxing holders with inflation. Avalanche Foundation economists want inflation at zero — and validators paid from value the chain actually captures. "What if we could lower inflation to zero and give them the value that they captured? That's a structural reason for validators to stay." Avalanche Foundation 🔺 CIO Matias Antonio (Matias) and Lead Economist Eric Lu (Eric 🔺) on measure → capture → distribute. Layer One EP18, with Kelvin Sparks and John Wu 🔺: 00:00 - Introduction 05:54 - GCP and GCI: measuring chain productivity 08:31 - Capture: why value never reaches the token 09:24 - Distribute: paying validators without inflation 11:09 - GDP, GNI and a very low tax rate 12:37 - Output vs income, and what each costs to tax 17:42 - Dormant capital and the gas floor 24:39 - The Ethereum staking-ratio fight 31:05 - A Laffer curve for a blockchain? 35:26 - Why economists, and why now 46:16 - Twelve months out
The Block26,700 次观看 • 23 天前
NEW: Big Brain Podcast 🧠 Crypto's Value Era Zaheer shut down Split Capital two weeks before the 10/10 crash. Now he's CSO at Plasma and focused on creating real value. "You need to take off the rose-colored glasses of what crypto used to be." Full interview 👇 OUTLINE 00:00 Introduction 01:18 Plasma Pivot 10:08 Verticalization Thesis 16:31 Plasma USP 19:30 Whop Announcement 21:20 Token Value Accrual 28:40 Token Transparency 31:48 Role of Community 35:30 ETH vs. SOL 44:00 Market Outlook
The Block121,138 次观看 • 5 个月前
Jordan Jefferson: "Dogecoin is really carrying the torch of the early Bitcoin days." DogeOS founder and CEO Jordan joins Gareth Jenkinson at Consensus 2026 to explain why Dogecoin needs a real onchain economy and why he believes Doge still carries the spirit of crypto’s original peer-to-peer cash movement. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 00:46 - Early Bitcoin Days 02:05 - Bitcoin vs Dogecoin 07:42 - Building DogeOS 08:47 - Dogecoin Economy 11:12 - Elon Musk Effect 13:56 - Bitcoin Maximalism 16:44 - Crypto Culture Debate 18:01 - TJ Miller Connection 19:50 - Final Thoughts
The Block95,092 次观看 • 4 个月前
Prediction markets are reshaping how we understand news, politics and finance in real time. But how do they work under the hood? We just launched a complete Prediction Markets Course to take you from beginner to expert! Don’t forget to leave your wallet address during sign up.
The Block61,416 次观看 • 2 个月前
Stani Kulechov on Aave V4, Avalanche, and Why RWAs Hit $100B This Year Aave Labs Founder Stani joins Ava Labs 🔺 President John Wu 🔺 and Kelvin Sparks to discuss the Aave V4 deployment on Avalanche🔺 , GHO, RWAs and more. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introductions 03:15 - Aave by the Numbers 04:50 - V4 and Horizon 06:26 - The Great Convergence 11:11 - Why Avalanche 18:19 - Killing the Prime Broker 24:39 - Walled Gardens 32:33 - The GHO Engine 37:18 - The Aave App 44:23 - $100B by 2026
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NEW: The White Papers EP3 From a small exchange to global Web3 platform in 13 years 📈 Gate Founder & CEO Dr. Han breaks down the playbook including: AI in product, the compliance moat, and the RWA shift reshaping the industry. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 00:21 - 13 Year Journey 01:41 - Using AI Daily 02:50 - AI in Products 05:03 - AI and Web3 Synergy 06:47 - Exchange Competition 09:26 - RWA and TradFi Shift 10:52 - Compliance Strategy 12:56 - Founder Evolution 16:31 - Crypto as Infrastructure
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World Liberty Financial Responds to Justin Sun Allegations "Everything was publicly documented online and more importantly, documented onchain" WLFI co-founder Zak Folkman sits down with Gareth Jenkinson at Consensus 2026 to discuss the company’s lawsuit involving H.E. Justin Sun 👨🚀 🌞 and the public scrutiny surrounding the project. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 01:23 - Lawsuit Overview 02:20 - Media and Politics 03:14 - Smart Contract Claims 05:25 - Fighting Back 06:55 - DeFi Lending Markets 08:48 - Trump and Scrutiny 10:54 - Consumer App Vision 12:43 - Stablecoin Growth 14:56 - Building Through Pressure
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Will prediction markets be bigger than sportsbooks? "Long-term, they're going to get Blockbuster'd..." Polymarket Analytics CEO Nick Rizzoli joins Kelvin Sparks on Prediction Market News to talk information advantage, prediction market structure, and more. Full interview 👇
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Sergej Kunz: The next billion users will be AI agents. 1inch Co-Founder Sergej Kunz sits down with Gareth Jenkinson to discuss how liquidity fragmentation, and user experience challenges are shaping the next generation of protocols, including 1inch’s new approach with Aqua. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 01:37 - Market Recovery 02:35 - Ethereum Direction 03:08 - Institutional Interest 03:45 - Institutional DeFi 05:27 - UX and Trade Risks 07:28 - Security and Hacks 09:48 - AMM Innovation 12:55 - Aave and Competition 14:52 - AI and Agents
The Block72,304 次观看 • 4 个月前
Coinbase CLO: CLARITY Act passes by summer "Banks need to take yes for an answer..." Paul Grewal and Gareth Jenkinson cover the latest developments in crypto regulation, the significance of the CLARITY Act, and Coinbase's vision for the future – live from Consensus 2026 OUTLINE 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Senate CLARITY Compromise 04:20 - Banking Lobby 'Fears' 05:21 - Central Bankers & Bitcoin 08:22 - Trump-Era Crypto Politics 10:12 - Prediction Markets & States' Rights 14:45 - The Everything Crypto App 16:23 - CLARITY Act Timeline
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Georg Harer: Our real goal is not fighting for the 10%... it’s getting the 90%. Co-CEO of the Bybit EU, sits down with Gareth Jenkinson at Paris Blockchain Week to discuss the company’s expansion strategy across Europe under MiCA, including why they chose a stricter regulatory path to gain long-term advantage. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 00:21 - Georg Harer Background 01:29 - Bybit EU MiCA Strategy 03:41 - Europe Market Opportunity 04:03 - Regulatory Challenges 05:18 - Why Austria 06:07 - Retail Growth Trends 07:40 - Stablecoin Issues 10:06 - The 90 Percent Opportunity
The Block59,847 次观看 • 4 个月前